Vinter v UK – Why The Majority Are Right To Find That Whole Life Orders Violate Article 3 ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights' recent decision in Vinter v UK will inevitably come under fire for infringing ...
European Convention on Human Rights
Vinter v UK and Whether Life Should Mean Life
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has ruled, in the case of Vinter and Others v United ...
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction under the ECHR – Smith (and Others) v MOD (2013)
In Smith (and Others) v MOD [2013] UKSC 41, the UK Supreme Court was charged with determining whether the UK ...
Proportionality analysis after Eweida and Others v. UK: Examining the Connections between Articles 9 and 10 of the ECHR
Until recently, questions regarding the theory and practice of the proportionality analysis in relation to the ...
Evolving Strasbourg Jurisprudence on Domestic Violence: Recognising Institutional Sexism
As part of a broader feminist critique of the European Convention on Human Rights, it has been argued that Article ...
The Role of Civil Society in the Execution of ECtHR Judgments
By Victoria Prais
European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgments can have a huge impact in Member States by ...
Trafficking in Human Beings and the European Court of Human Rights – In Dubio pro State?
by Marija Jovanovic -
The ECtHR in M. and Others v. Italy and Bulgaria departs from a low-threshold approach ...
Animal Defenders International v UK: A Case of Fruitful Dialogue, or of Strasbourg Losing its Nerve?
On 22 April, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights held in Animal Defenders International v UK, ...
Animal Defenders International: Will Strasbourg open the door to political advertisements on TV?
By Jacob Rowbottom -
On Monday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will give its long ...
Prisoner Voting and the Rule of Law: The Irony of Non-Compliance
By John Hirst -
Prisoners’ voting rights remain a vexed issue in the United Kingdom. Following the European ...
The Strasbourg Court, the ‘Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies’ Rule, and the Principle of Subsidiarity: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?
By Natasha Simonsen -
The recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Er & Ors v ...
Yordanova and others v Bulgaria: an Illustration of the Absence of Watertight Divisions Between the Social Right to Adequate Housing and the Civil Right to Respect for one’s Home.
By Adélaïde Remiche -
On 24 April 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down a unanimous ...
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