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Author: Natasa Mavronicola

12 Feb

Cruel Legacies: The CAT’s Decision in Coppin v Ireland

[Natasa Mavronicola is Professor of Human Rights Law at Birmingham Law School.] ‘it is the position of the State Party that, the acts complained of have neither the required level of intensity or cruelty nor the impermissible purpose to permit them to be defined as torture. Further, the acts complained of do not meet the standard so as to fall within...

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