Hearing will decide whether UK law allowing most dangerous offenders to be jailed for life breaches human rights
The hearing, in Strasbourg, will test if UK law allowing the most dangerous offenders to be sentenced to whole-life tariffs breaches human rights and amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
The case, due to go before the grand chamber of the European court of human rights (ECHR) in November, comes after Europe's human rights judges ruled in January that it was not "grossly disproportionate" for Britain's most dangerous and notorious criminals to be imprisoned indefinitely.
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