The Defendants’ professional skills were engaged to present the plaintiff company in a good light, and an injunction was granted to restrain them from doing the opposite. Sach LJ said: ‘even in the commercial field, ethics and good faith are not to be regarded as merely opportunist or expedient’ and Shaw LJ: ‘There is the … Continue reading Schering Chemicals Ltd v Falkman Ltd: CA 1982
Article 8 of the Convention is aimed, in part, at protecting the home and are construed to give protection against nuisances including aircraft noise. Citations: 7889/77, (1982) 26 D R 5 F Sett Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights 8 Cited by: Cited – Hunter and Others v Canary Wharf Ltd HL 25-Apr-1997 The claimant, … Continue reading Arrondelle v United Kingdom: ECHR 1982
(Commission) An American citizen whose extradition from Spain was sought by the United States, complained that he had had inadequate legal representation and interpretation before the Audiencia Nacional. Held: The complaint was inadmissible. Extradition proceedings do not involve the ‘determination of a criminal charge’ within article 6(1), because in this context ‘the word ‘determination’ involves … Continue reading H v Spain: ECHR 1982
Judges: Cobb J Citations: [2017] EWFC 11, [2017] WLR(D) 117, [2017] 1 Costs LR 201 Links: Bailii, WLRD Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights 6 Jurisdiction: England and Wales Family, Human Rights, Costs Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.582018
Balance of Interests in peaceful enjoyment claim (Plenary Court) The claimants challenged orders expropriating their properties for redevelopment, and the banning of construction pending redevelopment. The orders remained in place for many years. Held: Article 1 comprises three distinct rules: the first rule, set out in the first sentence of the first paragraph, is general … Continue reading Sporrong and Lonnroth v Sweden: ECHR 23 Sep 1982
ECJ (Opinion of the full court) Opinion pursuant to Article 218(11) TFEU – Draft international agreement – Accession of the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms – Compatibility of the draft agreement with the EU and FEU TreatiesHeld: ‘The agreement on the accession of the European … Continue reading Accession of The European Union to the European Convention for The Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: ECJ 18 Dec 2014
A prisoner sought an order for his removal from a prison found to have a regime which breached his human rights. The Crown replied that an order could not be made under s21 of the 1947 Act. Held: The prisoner had followed through his rights to petition the governor. Had he done so and failed, … Continue reading Reclaiming Motion In Petition of Scott Davidson for Judicial Review of A Decision To Continue To Detain the Prisoner In Inhuman and Degrading Prison C: SCS 18 Dec 2001
Hudoc applicant convicted of murder complained that his right to a fair trial under Article 6(1) had been denied because the trial court had been presided over by a Judge who, when senior deputy procureur, had been in charge of the department which decided to prosecute the applicant. Held: ‘Whilst impartiality normally denotes absence of … Continue reading Piersack v Belgium: ECHR 1 Oct 1982
ECHR Judgment : Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 – Protection of property : Fifth Section 74288/14, [2021] ECHR 823 Bailii European Convention on Human Rights Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 04 December 2021; Ref: scu.668680
The father applied to the court to have the media excluded from the hearing into the residence and contact claims relating to his daughter. Held: It was for the party seeking such an order to justify it. In deciding whether or not to exclude the press in the welfare or privacy interests of a party … Continue reading Child X (Residence and Contact- Rights of Media Attendance) (Rev 2): FD 14 Jul 2009
The deceased soldier died of heat exhaustion whilst on active service in Iraq. It was said that he was owed a duty under human rights laws, and that any coroner’s inquest should be a fuller one to satisfy the state’s duty under Article 2. Held: The SSD’s appeal succeeded. ‘jurisdiction’ within the meaning of Article … Continue reading Smith, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Defence and Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening): SC 30 Jun 2010
Extension oh Human Rights Beyond Borders The appellants complained that the system set up by the respondent where Home Office officers were placed in Prague airport to pre-vet applicants for asylum from Romania were dsicriminatory in that substantially more gypsies were refused entry than others, and that it was contrary to the obligations of the … Continue reading Regina v Immigration Officer at Prague Airport and another, ex parte European Roma Rights Centre and others: HL 9 Dec 2004
Two fraud prosecutions against the claimants had lasted for 15 and 20 years respectively.
Held: Article 6.1 applies to all stages of criminal proceedings, including sentencing and any appeal. The ‘reasonable time’ in criminal matters, . .
ECHR Judgment (Merits) – Preliminary objection rejected (ex officio examination); Preliminary objection rejected (non-exhaustion); Violation of Art. 6-1; Non necessary to examine Art. 13; Just satisfaction . .
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The Entry Clearance Officer appealed against a determination of Judge of the First-tier Tribunal . The Respondent before the Upper Tribunal was the Appellant before the First-tier Tribunal. The claimant is a male citizen of Pakistan who applied for . .
An elderly lady complained that the applicant had assaulted her. The police investigated and reported back to the prosecutor who referred the matter to the Innsbruck District Court. The court registered the case as a ‘punishable act’ under section . .
A disabled UK citizen living on benefits complained of the denial of entry clearance to his Filippino fiancee whom he had never met but wished to marry here. The ground of refusal was that she would be a charge on public funds.
Held: The right . .
Even where ‘jurisdictional organs of professional associations’ are set up: ‘Nonetheless, in such circumstances the Convention calls at least for one of the two following systems: either the jurisdictional organs themselves comply with the . .
The defendants had been tried in cases where the prosecution had employed leading counsel. The defendants had been refused similar representation. They complained that this created an inequality of arms, and an unfair trial under Human Rights law. . .
The Commission considered a complaint where entry clearance was refused for the Philippine fiancee of a disabled man of limited means on the basis that she did not have the means to maintain and support herself without access to public funds.
A scheme had been introduced to arrange pre-entry clearance for visitors to the United Kingdom by posting of immigration officers in the Czech Republic. The claimants argued that the system was discriminatory, because Roma visitors were now . .
To exclude a child from school for as long as his parents refused to let him be beaten ‘cannot be described as reasonable and in any event falls outside the State’s power of regulation in article 2’. The Convention protects only religions and . .
The applicant was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for theft. He had a previous convictions and was thought to have a persistent tendency to crime, and was placed at the government’s disposal for 10 years on that ground. This was subject to . .
The appellant was excluded from school. A female pupil related her fear of him to a teacher, but would not make a formal complaint, and the appellant was not to be told of the report or the investigation of it. There was said to have been confusion between suspension, exclusion and expulsion. The court was … Continue reading JR17 for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland): SC 23 Jun 2010
Appeal against successful judicial review of refusal of legal aid for mother of deceased at inquest.
Held: ‘article 2 will be engaged in the much narrower range of cases where there is at least an arguable case that the state has been in . .
Hudoc Judgment (Merits and just satisfaction) Preliminary objection rejected (estoppel) ; Violation of Art. 2 with regard to deaths ; Violation of Art. 2 with regard to lack of effective investigation ; Not . .
Citations: 17233/08, [2010] ECHR 1819 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights, Prisons Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.426828
Citations: 23782/06, [2009] ECHR 1411 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.375451
Citations: 62110/10, [2010] ECHR 1927 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights, Children Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.426823
Citations: 2015/02, [2006] ECHR 174 Links: Worldlii, Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.243482
ECHR Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Fifth Section Committee Citations: 29648/07, [2020] ECHR 826 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.656515
ECHR Judgment : Right to a fair trial : First Section Committee Citations: 65546/13, [2020] ECHR 828 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.656514
ECHR Judgment : No Right to respect for private and family life : Fifth Section Citations: 24173/18, [2020] ECHR 821 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.656519
ECHR Judgment : Right to life : Fifth Section Citations: 72080/12, [2020] ECHR 823 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.656530
ECHR Judgment : Prohibition of torture : Fifth Section Committee Citations: 34528/13, [2020] ECHR 827 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.656523
ECHR Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Third Section Committee Citations: 38007/14, [2020] ECHR 780 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.655882
ECHR Judgment : Protection of property : First Section Citations: 18312/12, [2020] ECHR 693 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 22 May 2022; Ref: scu.655823
ECHR Judgment : Right to an effective remedy : Fifth Section Citations: 25338/16, [2020] ECHR 822 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 21 May 2022; Ref: scu.656508
ECHR Judgment : Right to a fair trial : First Section Committee Citations: 30259/15, [2020] ECHR 829 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 21 May 2022; Ref: scu.656517
ECHR Judgment : Article 2 – Right to life : Third Section Citations: 74282/11, [2018] ECHR 682 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.622498
ECHR Judgment : Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life : Fifth Section Citations: 2822/16, [2018] ECHR 706 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.622519
Citations: 15590/14 (Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) : Court (First Section)), [2015] ECHR 932 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.554382
The applicant was convicted in 1988 of drug offences committed in 1986. The judge passed a sentence of imprisonment but imposed a confiscation order pursuant to an Act that came into force in l987. Held: The concept of penalty in Article 7 was an autonomous Convention concept and that to render the protection of Article … Continue reading Welch v United Kingdom: ECHR 15 Feb 1995
A defendant’s difficulty in hearing the case because of a screen erected to protect the identity of witnesses did not vitiate the trial or make it unfair. The right to a fair trial included the right to be present and in a position to follow the proceedings. Judges: R. Ryssdal, P Citations: Ind Summary 11-Apr-1994, … Continue reading Stanford v United Kingdom: ECHR 11 Apr 1994
Citations: 36682/07, [2011] ECHR 173 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.428381
Citations: 34137/03, [2011] ECHR 118 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.428261
Citations: 44048/07, [2011] ECHR 119 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.428263
Citations: 20187/03, [2011] ECHR 122 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.428257
Citations: 21823/12 (Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) : Court (Fourth Section)), [2015] ECHR 844 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.553080
Citations: 4722/09 (Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) : Court (First Section)), [2015] ECHR 841 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.553082
Citations: 30582/04 (Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) : Court (Fifth Section)), [2015] ECHR 835 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.553070
When a court considered ordering a restriction on reporting of a case until after it was concluded, it had a three stage test to apply. First, would the reporting create a not insubstantial risk of prejudice. If there was no such risk, an order could not be made. Second, would an order reduce or remove … Continue reading Regina v Sherwood, ex parte The Telegraph Group plc and Others: CACD 12 Jun 2001
A decision to impose a penalty on a taxpayer, involved a charge of a criminal nature, for the purposes of article 6 of the Convention. It was necessary, therefore, to proceed with such a matter quickly. Even so, in the imposition of such penalties, there was no point upon which the burden of proof did … Continue reading James Murray King v Annie Marie Walden (HM Inspector of Taxes): ChD 12 Jun 2001
The English Courts martial system did not give a fair trial because the role of the convening officer meant that the tribunal was not sufficiently independent or impartial since the officer might outrank the court and could dissolve the proceedings. ECHR Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) – Violation of Art. 6-1; Pecuniary damage – claim … Continue reading Cable et Al v United Kingdom: ECHR 18 Feb 1999
Legal Aid was wrongfully refused where a tax or fine defaulter was liable to imprisonment, and the lack of a proper means enquiry, made imprisonment of poll tax defaulter unlawful. A poll tax defaulter had been wrongly committed to prison by magistrates. The question was whether or not they had acted in excess of jurisdiction. … Continue reading Benham v United Kingdom: ECHR 8 Feb 1995
ECHR Judgment : Protection of property : Third Section Citations: 38770/17, [2020] ECHR 711 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.655828
ECHR Judgment : Article 6 – Right to a fair trial : Fifth Section Committee Citations: 18282/18, [2019] ECHR 165 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.633723
ECHR Judgment : Article 5 – Right to liberty and security : Third Section Committee Citations: 8279/16, [2019] ECHR 83 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.633662
K, aged 16, had left home to join what was said to be a religious sect. His whereabouts were unknown. He had been made a ward of court and the Official Solicitor was appointed to represent his interests. He had sent messages to say that he was well and did not wish to return. The … Continue reading Kelly (A Minor) v British Broadcasting Corporation: FD 25 Jul 2000
The parties had lived together in a house owned in the defendant’s name and in which she claimed an interest. The claimant’s solicitors notified NCIS that they thought the defendant had acted illegally in setting off against his VAT liability the VAT on works carried out on his own property. Because of the delay which … Continue reading Bowman v Fels (Bar Council and Others intervening): CA 8 Mar 2005
The claimant was a serving a life sentence. During prison disciplinary proceedings he was refused legal and other assistance, and an outside tribunal on the basis that since any finding would not lead to any loss of remission or extra time, his rights to a fairtrial were not engaged. Held: The prisoner’s appeal was dismissed. … Continue reading Tangney v The Governor of HMP Elmley and Another: CA 29 Jul 2005
The trust, operators of Ashworth Secure Hospital sought from the defendant journalist disclosure of the name of their employee who had revealed to the defendant matters about the holding of Ian Brady, the Moors Murderer, and in particular medical records. Held: The need for involvement by the third party in the source’s wrongdoing is a … Continue reading Mersey Care NHS Trust v Ackroyd: QBD 7 Feb 2006
ECHR Judgment (Just Satisfaction) – Non-pecuniary damage – finding of violation sufficient; Costs and expenses award – domestic proceedings; Costs and expenses award – Convention proceedings. Citations: 7496/76, 7299/75 Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights 6 Citing: See Also – Le Compte, Van Leuven And De Meyere v Belgium ECHR 23-Jun-1981 Hudoc The Court was … Continue reading Albert And Le Compte v Belgium: ECHR 24 Oct 1983
Citations: 28182/02, [2005] ECHR 515, [2005] ECHR 515 Links: Worldlii, Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 17 May 2022; Ref: scu.230679
The claimant had suffered mental illness and threatened to hurt himself. He was taken into hospital as a voluntary patient, but in effect detained compulsorily. He lacked capacity to consent to medical treatment. Held: The holding of a patient informally amounted to a detention, and that detention was unlawful. It made no difference whether the … Continue reading L v United Kingdom: ECHR 5 Oct 2004
ECHR Judgment : Preliminary objection dismissed : Third Section Citations: 19656/18, [2020] ECHR 772 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.655826
ECHR Judgment : Remainder inadmissible : Fifth Section Citations: 66753/11, [2020] ECHR 756 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.655827
ECHR Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Fourth Section Committee Citations: 40124/13, [2020] ECHR 682 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.655798
Applications were made by foreign nationals, residing unlawfully in the UK, for leave to remain as the partners of British citizens with whom they had formed relationships during their unlawful residence, relying primarily on the duty imposed on the Secretary of State by the 1998 Act to act compatibly with the right to respect for … Continue reading Agyarko and Ikuga, Regina (on The Applications of) v Secretary of State for The Home Department: SC 22 Feb 2017
This appeal concerns the rights of so-called ‘Zambrano carers’ and their children to financial support from the state. The appellant, an Algerian national married and had children here, but was refused housing after the break up the marriage. HC challenged the legality of the Regulations, contending that the denial of mainstream welfare and housing provision … Continue reading HC, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: SC 15 Nov 2017
The pursuer, a cigarette vending machine operator, challenged section 9 of the 2010 Act saying that the section was incompatible with its rights under article A1P1 of the Convention, and with article 34 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Held: The claim failed. Citations: [2012] CSIH 80 Statutes: European Convention on … Continue reading Sinclair Collis Ltd v Lord Advocate: SCS 2012
(Admissibility) The Secretary of State had, after preliminary procedures, served notices on an insurance company disallowing it from writing any new business, because its managing director the applicant, had been found not to be a fit and proper person to be a controller of the company. He had misstated the value of the company’s assets. … Continue reading Kaplan v United Kingdom: ECHR 14 Dec 1978
The applicants were Belgian nationals and medical practitioners. Dr Le Compte was suspended from practising medicine for two years for an offence against professional discipline. He appealed to the Appeals Council, alleging violations of Article 6. In his absence the Appeals Council rejected his case and substituted for the two year suspension a direction to … Continue reading Albert And Le Compte v Belgium (Article 50): ECHR 24 Oct 1983
ECHR Judgment : Preliminary objection joined to merits and dismissed : Fourth Section Citations: 32495/15, [2020] ECHR 706 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.655820
ECHR Judgment : Procedural safeguards relating to expulsion of aliens : Grand Chamber Citations: 80982/12, [2020] ECHR 734 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.655830
ECHR Judgment : Right to a fair trial : First Section Citations: 31454/10, [2020] ECHR 782 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.655872
Citations: 8213/06, [2010] ECHR 471 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.406790
Citations: 2082/05 (Communicated Case), [2012] ECHR 1139 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.461966
ECHR Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Third Section Committee Citations: 72444/14, [2020] ECHR 722 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 14 May 2022; Ref: scu.655821
ECHR Judgment : Remainder inadmissible Right to liberty and security : Fourth Section Citations: 5113/11, [2020] ECHR 712 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 14 May 2022; Ref: scu.655825
ECHR Judgment : No Right to a fair trial : Fourth Section Committee Citations: 75882/13, [2020] ECHR 683 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 14 May 2022; Ref: scu.655839
ECHR Judgment : Right to respect for private and family life : Fourth Section Committee Citations: 59066/16, [2020] ECHR 679 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 14 May 2022; Ref: scu.655782
Citations: 38327/97, [2001] ECHR 282 Links: Worldlii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 14 May 2022; Ref: scu.212327
(Commission) In the context of the second sentence of Article 2, ‘there is no positive obligation on the State in relation to the second sentence . . to subsidise any particular form of education in order to respect the religions and philosophical beliefs of parents. It is sufficient for the State, in order to comply … Continue reading X v United Kingdom: ECHR 1978
Hudoc Judgment (Merits and just satisfaction) Violation of P1-1 ; Violation of Art. 6-1 ; Pecuniary damage – financial award ; Non-pecuniary damage – financial awardThe applicant had let her flat. Her action to recover possession through the courts had taken 10 years, largely because of the lack of police support in enforcing her lawful … Continue reading Scurci Chimenti v Italy: ECHR 19 Dec 2002
Citations: 68490/01, [2007] ECHR 582, [2011] ECHR 581 Links: Bailii, Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 12 May 2022; Ref: scu.258278
ECHR Judgment : Article 5 – Right to liberty and security : Second Section Committee Citations: 52053/15, [2019] ECHR 33 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 11 May 2022; Ref: scu.633682
ECHR Judgment : Preliminary objection joined to merits and dismissed : Second Section Citations: 23226/16, [2019] ECHR 82 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 11 May 2022; Ref: scu.633668
Citations: 49674/07, [2011] ECHR 1819 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 11 May 2022; Ref: scu.448252
Citations: 35119/09, [2011] ECHR 1817 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 11 May 2022; Ref: scu.448254
Citations: 42058/09, [2011] ECHR 1795 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 11 May 2022; Ref: scu.448253
Lord Rodger of Earlsferry discussed the fetters place upon the Lord Advocate by the 1998 Act, saying that he simply has no power to move the court to grant any remedy which would be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. Judges: Lord Rodger of Earlsferry Citations: 2000 SLT 331 Statutes: Scotland Act 1998 … Continue reading HM Advocate v Scottish Media Newspapers Ltd: 2000
The applicant was illegitimate, born to a British mother and a Maltese father. Paternity had been established scientifically and in judicial proceedings. The father refused to recognise his son on the birth certificate, and the applicant’s mother brought proceedings which resulted in the birth certificate being amended to show paternity. The applicant then applied for … Continue reading Genovese v Malta: ECHR 11 Oct 2011
Citations: 36760/06, [2010] ECHR 1182 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Cited by: See Also – Rusi Kosev Stanev v Bulgaria ECHR 17-Jan-2012 . . Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete. Human Rights Updated: 11 May 2022; Ref: scu.421146
ECHR Judgment : Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 – Protection of property : Second Section Committee Citations: 38275/06, [2019] ECHR 132 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 09 May 2022; Ref: scu.633752
The appellants claimed housing benefit. They appealed against rejection of their claims that the imposition of limits to the maximum sums payable, ‘the bedroom tax’, was unlawful on equality grounds. The claimants either had disabilities, or lived with dependent family with disabilities, or live in what are known as ‘sanctuary scheme’ homes (accommodation specially adapted … Continue reading MA and Others, Regina (on The Application of) v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: SC 9 Nov 2016
The house was asked whether it might be correct to stay criminal proceedings as an abuse where for delay. The defendants were prisoners in a prison riot in 1998. The case only came on for trial in 2001, when they submitted that the delay was an abuse. Held: The defendants had a right to a … Continue reading Attorney-General’s Reference (No 2 of 2001): HL 11 Dec 2003
The defendant had been convicted of murder in Scotland. He requested a transfer to an English prison. The trial judge recommended a tariff of eight years which was eventually set at 12 years by the respondent. That figure also exceeded the maximum recommended by the English judges who had reviewed the sentence. He complained that … Continue reading McFetrich, Regina (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Admn 30 Jun 2003
