Sanchez and ZB v France: How Many More Restrictions to Freedom of Expression Should Strasbourg Accept?
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Adbi Ibrahim v Norway: What It Takes to Make People Feel Integrated “Here in Europe” Without Necessarily “Becoming Like Them Norwegian Christians”
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On December 10th, the ECtHR’s GC (Grand Chamber) issued ...
The Use of Restraints against Prisoners Receiving Medical Treatment: The PPO Report into the Death of Peter Sutcliffe
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The report by the Prisons and Probation ...
UK High Court Grants Discretionary Leave to Remain for Victims of Trafficking
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On 12 October 2021, in KTT, R ...
The Polish Challenge to the ECtHR’s Authority: Can the CoE Human-Rights System Respond Convincingly to It?
That the 24.11.21 judgment of the Polish Constitutional Court (CC) represents a serious challenge to the ECtHR’s ...
Lee v UK: Exhausting Domestic Remedies
Today a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) handed down its decision in Lee v UK, declaring ...
Pushing the Bioethical Envelope: Rethinking the Rights of Part-Human Chimeric Embryos
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On 15 April ...
Justice behind closed doors? Extrajudicial killings, Closed Material Proceedings, and Investigatory Obligations under the ECHR
The on-going case R (Saifullah) v Secretary of State for Defence is a judicial review case concerning the Ministry ...
Disability-Selective Abortions – A Double-Edged Sword? High Court of England and Wales Gives Ruling on the Conflict Between Rights of Disabled Persons and Women’s Reproductive Choice
In Crowter & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care [2021] EWHC 2536 ...
Defending legality in judicial appointments: The European Court of Human Rights and the Polish constitutional crisis [Part1]
That the Polish constitutional crisis would have had serious human-rights implications was clear from the start. ...
Protocol No. 15 to the ECHR: a new era of subsidiarity or a symbolic change?
Protocol No. 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights came into force in August 2021. It introduced several ...
MA v Denmark and Fedotova and Others v Russia: Judicial Activism in Protecting the Right to Family Life?
On 9.7.21, the GC of the ECtHR found a violation of Article 8 ECHR in the case of a Syrian national enjoying ...
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