Prohibition of Torture in UK Law
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R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3)
...... important of such international crimes for present purposes is torture which is regulated by the International Convention Against Torture and ... "Because of the importance of the values it protects, [the prohibition of torture] has evolved into a peremptory norm or jus cogens, that is, a ......
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A v Secretary of State for the Home Department (No. 2)
...... that Act, receive evidence which has or may have been procured by torture inflicted, in order to obtain evidence, by officials of a foreign state .... . 12 Despite this common law prohibition, it is clear from the historical record that torture was practised in ......
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Patrick Reyes v The Queen
...... 7. No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment." . ... Article 3 Prohibition of torture No one shall be subjected to torture or to ......
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Jones v Ministry of the Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and another (Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and another intervening); Mitchell v Al-Dali;
...... at whose hands the claimants say that they suffered systematic torture, in the territory of the foreign state. The issue turns on the ... the growing recognition of the overriding importance of the prohibition of torture, the majority did not find it established that there was yet ......
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R (Limbuela) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
...... 4 But the legislation does not end there. The prohibition in section 55(1) is qualified by section 55(5). Paragraphs (b) and (c) of ... member states from subjecting persons within their jurisdiction to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Since these appeals do ......
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Boyce et Al v R
......Likewise, section 15(1) ("no person shall be subject to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment") is much the ... corporal punishment, were likely to be thought to offend the prohibition in subsection (1). It is, however, clear that section 15(2) does not ......
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The Queen v Peter Hughes
...... Saint Lucia Order"): "No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment." . The ......
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R (Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No. 2)
...... into chambers, or to have considered ordering some form of prohibition on publication of these discussions, but that would have been inconsistent ... Torture . . 14 Information about terrorist plots is ......
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Pratt et Al v Attorney General et Al
...... delay and breach of the right to protection against subjection to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment - it would have been open to the ... Lordships need express no opinion - can escape the unambiguous prohibition imposed by the words in section 17(2) emphasised as follows: ......
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AM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
...... 15 Article 3 is headed “Prohibition" of torture”. It is in unqualified terms. It provides: \xE2"......
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