The Reach of the ECHR: A Reply to Eirik Bjorge
I thank Eirik Bjorge for reading our recent report Clearing the Fog of Law: Saving our Armed Forces from Defeat by ...
European Convention on Human Rights
A Comment on the Report Clearing the Fog of Law
In the Policy Exchange report Clearing the Fog of Law: Saving Our Armed Forces from Defeat by Judicial Diktat, ...
S.A.S v France: Controlling Identities in European Liberal Democracies
As discussed in previous posts, the ECtHR decided in S.A.S v France that the French criminal law ban on face ...
A Duty to Prosecute Hate Speech under the European Convention on Human Rights?
Freedom of expression is “one of the essential foundations of any democratic society” (Handyside) and recent ...
Hutchinson v UK – A Change in Direction on Whole Life Orders?
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in Hutchinson v UK that the imposition of a ‘whole life ...
Brighton and Beyond – Where Next for the European Convention on Human Rights?
Two reports have been released which shine a spotlight on the relationship between national authorities ...
UK vs ECtHR: The Prisoner Voting Saga Continues
On 12 August 2014, the Fourth Section Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Firth and others held yet ...
Property Rights, Pension Claims, and the Problematic Features of the ECtHR’s Proportionality Review
Although less mind-blowing than other recent Strasbourg judgments, the case of Stefanetti and Others v. Italy is ...
Hämäläinen v Finland: The Transgender Divorce Requirement in Strasbourg
In the landmark 2002 decision, Goodwin v United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”), citing an ...
Professor Frances Raday Comments on SAS v France
In the Grand Chamber judgment in the case of S.A.S. v. France, the European Court of Human Rights held, by a ...
SAS v France in Context: the margin of appreciation doctrine and protection of minorities
In SAS v France the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that a French law ...
Conform or be confined: S.A.S. v France
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on 1st July that France’s ban on face coverings, known as the burqa-ban, ...
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