"In honour of Michael O'Boyle." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Programme of the Seminar of 13 February 2015. Erik Fribergh (Registrar, European Court of Human Rights) ; Dean Spielmann (President, European Court of Human Rights) -- Letter / from Charles Flanagan (Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland) -- Right to respect for life and the abolition of the death penalty / Jean-Paul Costa (former President, European Court of Human Rights) -- Issues relating to the beginning and end of life / Baroness Hale of Richmond (Deputy President, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) -- Out of harm's way : positive obligations under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights / Linos-Alexander Sicilianos (Judge, European Court of Human Rights) -- Planning and control of operations involving the use of lethal force / Brice Dickson (Professor of Law, Queen’s University Belfast) -- "Operationalising the European Convention on Human Rights for police / Ralph Roche (Human Rights Legal Adviser, Police Service of Northern Ireland) -- Core of McCann : lethal force and democracy under the European Convention on Human Rights / Stephen Skinner (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Exeter) -- State responsibility for injuries and killings perpetrated by State agents other than in the performance of their duties / Aysegul Uzun Marinkovic and Aida Grigic (Lawyers, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights) -- "Legacy inquests" in Northern Ireland / Rt. Hon. Sir Declan Morgan (Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland) -- Grave violations of human rights : the handling of some procedural issues in the case-law of other international tribunals / Antonio Cancado Trindade (Judge, International Court of Justice) -- Investigation into the use of lethal force : standards of independence and impartiality / Egbert Myjer (Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists, former Judge, European Court of Human Rights) -- Post-conflict criminal investigation by international experts : how effective? :the Kosovo example / Andrey Antonov (Executive Officer, UNMIK Human Rights Advisory Panel) -- Right to the truth in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights / Olga Chernishova (Head of Division, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights) -- Dialogue at cross-purposes: the Northern Ireland inquest and Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights / John F. Larkin (Attorney General for Northern Ireland) -- Right to life : interim measures and the preservation of evidence in conflict situations / Philip Leach (Professor of Human Rights Law, Middlesex University; Director, European Human Rights Advocacy Centre) -- Involvement of the deceased victim's next of kin in criminal investigations : an analysis of the standards under Article 2 of the Convention and of Directive 2012/29/EU on the rights of victims of crime / Sofia Mirandola (Lawyer, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights) -- Article 2 of the Convention and military operations during armed conflict / Francoise J. Hampson (Emeritus Professor, School of Law, Essex University) -- Si vis pacem, para bellum : application of human rights law in situations of armed conflict / Rick Lawson (Professor and Dean, Law Faculty, University of Leiden) -- When is an act of war lawful? / Sir Daniel Bethlehem QC (Barrister, Director, Legal Policy International Ltd.) -- Adducing security-sensitive material in terrorist-related cases : different approaches in the European supranational courts / Rt. Hon. Lady Justice Arden (Judge, Court of Appeal of England and Wales) -- Right to life in situations of armed conflict / Clare Ovey (Head of Division, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights) -- Annexes. Erik Fribergh (Registrar, European Court of Human Rights) ; Dean Spielmann (President, European Court of Human Rights) -- Annexes. Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights -- Programme of the Seminar of 13 February 2015.
Summary:
"On 13 February 2015 a Seminar took place in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg entitled "The right to Life: Twenty Years of Legal Developments since McCann v. the United Kingdom". The Seminar was to celebrate the work and achievements of the Court's Deputy Registrar, Michael O'Boyle, on the occasion of his retirement. This volume contains the submissions made during and after the Seminar, and the order of inclusion of the submissions is based on the three working sessions of the Seminar"--Back cover.
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