“…(1998) 29 EHRR 245 dealing with the assessment of an analogous positive obligation in the context of Article 2 to protect a person from threats to life. At paragraph 116, the Eur…”
“…iction by third parties of inhuman and degrading treatment. Reference was made to Strasbourg authorities dealing with Article 2, notably Osman v United Kingdom (1998) 29 EHRR 245, in which that court had said that a violation of the state’s positive obligations depended on it being established (paragraph 116):…”
“…ake appropriate steps to protect an individual whose life is at “real and immediate risk”: see para. 116 of the judgment of the Court in Osman v United Kingdom (1998) 29 EHRR 245. The issue in Rabone was whether that operational duty arose in the case of a psychiatric in-patient who had committed suicide while on a permitted home visit.…”