R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No.2)

R. v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate Ex p. Pinochet Ugarte (No.2)[1] was an English legal case which involved the unprecedented setting aside of a House of Lords judgment based upon the possibility of bias. Lord Hoffmann's failure to declare links to Amnesty International meant that a previous House of Lords judgment on the immunity of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet had to be set aside.[2]

References

  1. ^ In re Pinochet, Oral Judgment: 17 December 1998, Oral Judgment: 17 December 1998, [1999] UKHL 52
  2. ^ "A look at Lord Hoffmann". BBC News. 1998-12-17. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/235456.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-10. 

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