Prospects for Justice: The Procedural Aspect of the Right to Life Under the European Convention on Human Rights and Its Applications to Investigations of Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday

Authors

Kara E. Irwin

Abstract

This Comment examines how the new doctrine of the procedural aspect of Article 2 of the European Convention can provide recourse for the travesty of justice inherent in failed investigations of alleged violations of the right to life, such as the contended failure of the Widgery Tribunal's investigation of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.

Recommended Citation

Kara E. Irwin, Prospects for Justice: The Procedural Aspect of the Right to Life Under the European Convention on Human Rights and Its Applications to Investigations of Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday, 22 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1822 (1998).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj/vol22/iss4/27