R (Al-Skeini) v Secretary of State for Defence
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD BROWN OF EATON-UNDER-HEYWOOD,LORD RODGER OF EARLSFERRY,LORD CARSWELL,BARONESS HALE OF RICHMOND,LORD BINGHAM OF CORNHILL |
| Judgment Date | 13 June 2007 |
| Neutral Citation | [2007] UKHL 26 |
| Date | 13 June 2007 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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H.X.A. v The Home Office
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R (O'Connor) v Avon Coroner
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R (Smith) v Oxon Asst Deputy Coroner [England, High Court, Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)]
...this narrow basis which led to the House of Lords in R (Al-Skeini) v. Secretary of State for Defence (The Redress Trust intervening)ELR[2008] 1 AC 153 to decide that one of the claimants who had met his death in a detention unit at the British Army's base in Basra was within the jurisdictio......
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Al-Saadoon and Others v Secretary of State for Defence
...1 should not be construed as reaching any further than the existing Strasbourg jurisprudence clearly shows it to reach ( Al-Skeini [2007] UKHL 26; [2008] AC 153 per Lord Brown at [107], Catherine Smith per Lord Hope at [93], Susan Smith per Lord Hope at [44]). This does not mean that courts......
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Application For Third Party Disclosure Can Be Served Abroad Where The Documents Are Within The Jurisdiction
...to the formulation of the principle in Bennion, Statutory Interpretation, endorsed by Lord Bingham in R (Al-Skeini) v SoS for Defence [2007] UKHL 26, that, "Unless the contrary intention appears ... an enactment applies to all persons and matters within the territory to which it extends, bu......
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Separation of Powers, Individual Rights, and the Constitution Abroad
...30, 1987); Gen. Comment No. 8, supra note 176, ¶ 1; Gen. Comment No. 29, supra note 176, ¶ 16. 218. Al-Skeini v. Sec’y of State for Def., [2007] UKHL 26 (appeal taken from Eng.), available at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldjudgmt/jd070613/skeini-1.htm. The House of Lord......
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Differing Responses to Constitutional and Human Rights Issues
...of the armed forces, whilst on active service in Iraq, was under the jurisdiction of 6 Secretary of State for Defence v Al-Skeini & Ors [2007] UKHL 26, [2008] 1 AC 153. 7 R (Gentle) & Anor v The Prime Minister & Anor [2008] UKHL 20, [2008] 1 AC 1356. 8 R (Smith) v Secretary of State for Def......
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Table of Cases
...(4th) 13, [2005] F.C.J. No. 213 (C.A.) .................. 485 Al-Skeini and others (Respondents) v. Secretary of State for Defence, [2007] UKHL 26 ............................................................................................ 30 623 NatioNal Security law 624 Alvarez-Machain v.......
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Horizontal Effect and the Constitutional Constraint
...itself:Hickman, n 70 above, at note 114,something accepted on reflection as a fair point.88 R (Al-Skeini) vSecretary of State for Defence [2007] UKHL 26, [2008] 1 AC 153 at [15(2)].89 Re S and Re W [2002] UKHL 10, [2002] 2AC 291 at [40] (Lord Nicholls).90 See further 892–894.Horizontal Effec......
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