g treatment. They found no basis in the text of Article 3 for such a distinction. Lord Brown also considered that the Court, in Chahal and again in Saadi v. Italy [GC], no. 37201/06, ECHR 2008-..., had departed from the previous, relativist approach to inhuman and degrading treatment that it had take

The Court had specifically rejected that EFTA00031785 --- PAGE BREAK --- 52 BABAR AHMAD AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM JUDGMENT submission in Saadi, cited above. Even if, in extradition cases, a relativist approach could be taken in respect of ill-treatment which fell short of torture, this was