In March this year, after a three-year investigation costing more than £20m, the government admitted to "substantive breaches" of the European Convention on Human Rights over the death and torture of Iraqi civilians in the custody of British soldiers.
Des Browne, the defence secretary, admitted in March to "substantive breaches" of the European convention on human rights, specifically articles two and three of the convention, which guarantee the right to life and prohibit torture.
"The European commission should take care to ensure that its investigation focuses on substantive breaches of EU competition law and not be dragged into a politically motivated protectionist battle with the US," said Allie Renison, its head of EU and trade policy.
LONDON — Britain's Defense Ministry agreed on Thursday to pay compensation to the family of an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died in the custody of British troops in Basra in September 2003, and to nine other Iraqis detained with him who the ministry said suffered "substantive breaches" of their human rights.
But I am not surprised by the PCC's decision because the public interest part of their argument is irrelevant if the substantive complaint - a breach of privacy - falls.
"You don't have to name a solicitor". The trouble is that the forms are 14 pages long, and include questions like: "Please describe why you consider there is an arguable breach of substantive obligation".
"The Court of Appeal agreed that the interview had an extremely aggressive tone combined with constant interruptions, was full of insults, ranting, and lacked any substantive content and that it was a breach of generally accepted standards.
(Meanwhile, rather puzzlingly, leader of Gloucestershire council Mark Hawthorne told Channel 4 News that the case had been lost on "a very small technical point" – a direct contradiction of the judge's own remarks just beforehand, in which he called the breach of equality duties involved "substantive, not merely a technical or procedural defect").
Germany based its claim on alleged breaches by the Council of essential procedural requirements, substantive rules and fundamental principles of Community law, and the Banana Protocol.8 The Court rejected all of these claims.
