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IRELAND V THE UK AND THE HOODED MEN: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY?

April 25, 2018

Written by Dr Alan Greene, Assistant Professor at Durham Law School* In Ireland v The United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR; the Court) in Chamber formation refused to revise its 1978 judgment regarding whether British security forces’ use of the so-called ‘five techniques’ of interrogation during the conflict in Northern Ireland amounted to […]