Cruelty - An Analysis of Article 3

Cruelty - An Analysis of Article 3 provides a practical guide focused on the application of Article 3 (prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights as incorporated into UK law by the Human Rights Act 1998. The relevance to the UK of this Article is greater than it might seem. Inhuman or degrading treatment affects a wide variety of vulnerable people including prisoners, immigrants, children, medical patients and the mentally ill. The book guides practitioners through the case law in this area, with each chapter highlighting areas most likely to be affected by this provision of the ECHR.
* Provides comprehensive coverage of how Article 3 affects a wide variety of situations
* Shows how the courts have interpreted the law
* Demonstrates what needs to be proven to support or defend a prosecution for violation of Article 3
* Shows what remedies may be available for claimantsCONTENTS
Chapter 1
À Article 3 - no-one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
À The meaning of torture
À Inhuman treatment
À Degrading treatment

Chapter 2
À Proving violations of Article 3
À The minimum level of severity (Ireland -v- UK 2 EHRR 251)
À The severity threshold
À Sex, age and health (Campbel & Cosans -v- UK 2 EHRR 293)
À Duration of treatment
À Humiliating and debasing treatment (Peers -v- Greece TLR April 21)
À Mentally ill persons

Chapter 3
À Criminal enforcement agencies
À Questioning and interrogation
À Detention
À Duty to respond to complaints of Article 3 violations
À Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions Act) 1989

Chapter 4

À Lawful punishment
À Sentencing
- length of imprisonment
- capital punishment
- corporal punishment
- compulsory treatment

Chapter 5
À Prisons
À Lack of appropriate medical treatment (Price -v- UK TLR August 21)

Chapter 6
À Hospitals

Chapter 7
À Extradition
À The test
- wholly unjustified
- disproportionate to the gravity of the crime committed

Chapter 8
À Ministry of Defence
À Obeying orders
À Forced to participate in experimentation
- Porton Down litigation
- Gulf War Syndrome

Chapter 9
À Victims of Crime
- assault against a person in loco parentis - children assaulted by adults (by means of correction)
À other vulnerable individuals and protection of their personal integrity

Chapter 1
À The Hague
- War Crimes Tribunals

Chapter 11
À Domestic Law
- Offences against the Person
- Criminal Justice Act 1988 Section 134 & 135
- intentionally inflicting severe pain and suffering on another in performance or purported performance of official duties
- defence of lawful authority

Chapter 12
À Assisted Suicide
- Diane Pretty litigation regarding Suicide Acts 1961 Section 2 and criminal liability for complicity in anothers suicide
- Supervision of know suicide risks (Keenan -v- United Kingdom TLR April 21)

Chapter 13
À Damages and compensation for violation including Article 41