WAITING FOR JUSTICE :The Politics of Delay in the Administration of Justice in Torture Cases: Practice, Standards and Responses

Abstract

The Report reviews international standards on ‘timeliness’ as well as court judgments and procedures from a number of countries around the world. It formulates a number of important litigation and advocacy strategies for the benefit of lawyers working with torture survivors which are designed to help mount effective responses to both systemic delays and delays in individual torture cases.