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 judgment in the case of Yordanova and others v Bulgaria, in...
A Quick Overview
Blog posts have been coming in thick and fast over the last month. To help you get up to speed, the editorial team has put together a quick summary of...
Eweida and Others v United Kingdom: the Use and Abuse of the Margin of Appreciation
Julie Maher’s post on the judgment handed down by the ECtHR in Eweida and Others v United Kingdom outlines the reasons which the Court gave for deciding that, while disciplinary...
Religious Rights in the Balance: Eweida and Others v UK
Yesterday’s decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Eweida and Others v the UK has been described as something of a ‘mixed bag’. By a margin of 5...
Eweida, Chaplin, Ladele and McFarlane v the United Kingdom: A Primer
On Tuesday 15 January the European Court of Human Rights will give judgement on the applications of four Christian employees who contend that UK law fails to adequately protect their...
Redfearn v United Kingdom and an Integrated Approach to Labour Rights
Following on from Alan Bogg’s analysis of Redfearn v United Kingdom, this post by Anjoli Maheswaran Foster focuses on a different aspect of the case- the ‘integrated approach’ to social...
Redfearn v United Kingdom: Hard Case Makes Good Law- Part 2
In Redfearn v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that the UK was under a positive obligation to enact legislation to protect employees from dismissal on...
Redfearn v United Kingdom: Hard Case Makes Good Law-Part 1
On 6 November 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down judgment in Redfearn v United Kingdom. In a two-part post, Alan Bogg argues that the ECtHR reached...
From Slavery to Strasbourg: The ECtHR makes the first Article 4 finding against the UK
By Gwendolen Morgan In November 2012, the European Court of Human Rights handed down judgment in the case of CN v. UK. The court unanimously held that there had been...
James, Wells and Lee v UK: Indefinite Detention and Arbitrary Deprivations of Liberty
More than 6000 UK prisoners are currently subject to indefinite detention without means of progressing towards parole. In James, Wells and Lee v UK the European Court of Human Rights...
Prisoners' Voting Rights: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
If ‘suffrage is the pivotal right’, then it is only fitting that the issue of prisoners’ voting rights has become the turning point of the UK government’s approach to the...
State Sovereignty v Migrants’ Rights: Who Wins before the European and Inter-American Court of Human Rights?
On Tuesday this week, the Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) in conjunction with the Oxford Migration Law Discussion Group (OxMLDG) welcomed Professor Marie-Benedicte Dembour, Professor of Law and Anthropology at...
