Deprivation of Liberty and Human Dignity in the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights
In its landmark 2013 judgment of Vinter and Others v. the United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights held that a life sentence which is not de jure and de facto reducible amounts to a breach of the prohibition of inhuman and degrading punishment, as enshrined in Article 3 of the European Con...
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University of Bergen
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice |
| Online Access: | https://boap.uib.no/index.php/BJCLCJ/article/view/1064 |