Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 05/03/2012

Subject: The decision according to which the prolonged police detention of a mentally-ill man without adequate medical care amounts to the violation of articles 3 and 13 of the Convention

Parties: M.S. c. Regno Unito

Classification: Dignity - Art. 4 Inhuman punishments - Degrading punishments - Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal