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Further Reading
Committee of Ministers takes stock of United
Kingdom reforms
and calls for further measures to comply with judgments of
the European Court of Human Rights on Northern Ireland
24th February 2005 --
Strasbourg, 24.02.2005 - The Committee of Ministers
has adopted an Interim Resolution on the execution by the United Kingdom
of a number of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. The
judgments found violations of Article 2 of the European Convention
(right to life) in Northern Ireland due to the failure to conduct
effective investigations into the deaths of the applicants' next-of-kin
(cases of Jordan, McKerr, Kelly and others, Shanaghan, McShane and
Finucane).
The Committee took note with interest of measures
taken or under way to remedy failings found in the investigative
procedures concerning these deaths at the hands of the police or armed
forces in Northern Ireland or in circumstances giving rise to
allegations of collusion between the security forces and the killers.
The Committee recalled its consistent position that
there is a continuing obligation to conduct effective investigations
inasmuch as procedural violations of Article 2 were found in these
cases. It called on the Government to take all outstanding individual
measures in these cases rapidly and to keep the Committee regularly
informed of the measures taken.
Some of the recent measures which are subject to the
Committee's on-going assessment include the Inquiries Bill - which is
intended to serve as a basis for a further inquiry in one of the cases -
and the recommendations made to improve the coroners' system following
the Luce Review.
The European Court's judgments require states to
adopt all measures necessary to grant applicants appropriate redress and
to prevent similar violations in future. This process is supervised by
the Committee of Ministers.
The full text of the Interim Resolution, which
provides a comprehensive picture of the measures taken or under way in
these cases, is available at:
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/press/News/2005/20050224_rec_cm.asp
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