Researchers at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford have published a report examining public debate around the role of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). They found that discussion of the ECHR has been widespread in recent years, and particularly in relation to how it applies to immigration control. Continue reading
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In the case of Green v United Kingdom [2025] ECHR 91 the Fourth Section of the Court of Human Rights held that a failure by Parliament to prevent Lord Hain from revealing information about Sir Philip Green (“the Applicant”) which was subject to a privacy injunction was not a violation of Article 8. Continue reading
The Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights today handed down judgment in the case of Associated Newspapers v United Kingdom (App No 37398/21). It was claimed that success fees and ATE premiums under CFA’s violated the newspapers Article 10 right to freedom of express. It was held that success fees did violate Article 10 but there was no violation in relation to recoverable ATE premiums. Continue reading
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In its judgment of 4 June 2024 in the case of Sokolovskiy v. Russia the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) dealt with the issue of religious hate speech as a criminal offence interfering with the right to freedom of expression and information under Article 10 ECHR (see also Lenis v. Greece and Tagiyev and Huseynov v. Azerbaijan). Continue reading
Should anyone be left to the mercy of trial by media? ‘Never ever. Under no circumstances,’ underlines judge Kūris in his elaborated dissenting opinion in Mesić v. Croatia (no. 2), criticising the Chamber reasoning that sets ‘a very low standard for the protection of personality rights’. Continue reading
In the case of Bild GmbH v Germany [2023] ECHR 851 the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights found that an order that a publisher should cease publication of CCTV footage of an arrest without pixelating the face of one of the officers involved was a violation of Article 10 as it could lead to an unacceptable ban on future publication on matters of public interest. Continue reading
Hate speech and violence against LGBTQI+ individuals are on the rise in Europe. In 2022, ILGA Europe reported an increase in both the number of cases of violence, as well as in their severity. As for hate speech, this was by no means limited to furtive cases; politicians in several countries (including Belgium) reportedly made numerous derogatory or hateful public statements concerning LGBTQI+ persons. Continue reading
In the wake of the digital revolution, questions surrounding the right to privacy and the right to be forgotten have come to the fore. With the digitalisation of press archives, what once required extensive archival research can now be discovered – even sometimes accidentally – through a simple online search. This is what led the Belgian Courts to order that Mr Hurbain anonymise an article in the online archive of the Le Soir newspaper. Before the European Court of Human Rights (the Court, ECtHR) Mr Hurbain argued that this order had violated his right to freedom of expression. Continue reading
On 15 May 2023 in the case of Sanchez v France, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) confirmed its earlier Chamber judgment of 2 September 2021 (see Inforrm post here). The ECtHR found that the criminal conviction of a politician for failing to promptly delete hate speech, that was posted by others, from his public Facebook account, did not violate Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Continue reading
In the aftermath of the long running libel clam by Bruno Lachaux against two newspapers, the United Kingdom government has accepted that the success fees recovered by the claimants breached Article 10 and has paid more than £500,000 to the defendants. Continue reading
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