In early judgments on the scope of the Human Rights Act 1998, it was determined that court hearings relating to events that pre-dated the coming into force of the 1998 Act would not apply the Act's substantive provisions. This might mean that, in the context of an inquest as an example, deaths that occurred one day apart, one before and one after the date of the 1998 Act coming into force, would receive different standards of review (given that the legislation affecting the conduct of inquests h ...
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