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Nelson v United Kingdom: ECHR 1986

A complaint of discrimination was made based on differences between the laws governing remission and parole in Scotland and England.
Held: The complaint was dismissed. The differences were ‘not related in any way to the personal status of the applicant’.

Citations:

(1986) 49 DR 170

Jurisdiction:

Human Rights

Cited by:

CitedA and B, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Health SC 14-Jun-2017
The court was asked: ‘Was it unlawful for the Secretary of State for Health, the respondent, who had power to make provisions for the functioning of the National Health Service in England, to have failed to make a provision which would have enabled . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Human Rights

Updated: 16 August 2022; Ref: scu.642148

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