Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 03/13/2012

Subject: The decision on the right to life and the right of the applicant to an effective remedy with regard to the claim for compensation lodged after the death of the applicant’s son, a psychiatric voluntary in-patient diagnosed with schizophrenia, following his fall from the sixth floor of a public care unit

Parties: Reynolds c. Regno Unito

Classification: Dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal