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Two midwives who were denied employment in Sweden because of their refusal to participate in abortions have had their application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) declared inadmissible. Ellinor Grimmark and Linda Steen, who were represented by Scandinavian Human Rights Lawyers, wer

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of a religious community which was prohibited from importing religious literature by the Azerbaijani authorities. The community of Jehovah’s Witnesses sought official approval to import religious materials but select texts were reject

The Police Service of Northern Ireland breached a man's privacy rights by indefinitely retaining his personal data after his drink driving conviction was spent, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Fergus Gaughran, from Newry, was arrested on suspicion of drink driving in October 20

Russia violated the rights of an auditor charged with organised tax evasion who died in pre-trial detention in November 2009, judges in the European Court of Human Rights have unanimously ruled.

Advocate Paul Harvey reflects on the third of Lord Sumption's Reith Lectures, in which the former Supreme Court justice takes the ECHR to task. These are unsatisfactory times for lawyers who wish to engage in public debate. The law, like so many other specialist disciplines, is not always fairly and

Judges in the Netherlands have refused to extradite a suspected drugs smuggler to the UK over concerns that conditions at HMP Liverpool are "inhuman and degrading", the Liverpool Echo reports. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said: "Since providing reassurances the court has postponed its decision."

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled again that the UK's blanket ban preventing serving prisoners from voting represents a violation of article 3 of protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – the right to free elections. The court declined, however, to a

There would be a violation of article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights if a man resident in Switzerland, who was convicted of rape and who is now disabled and dependent on his children, were to be expelled to Kosovo, judges in the European C

A woman in respect of whom vulgar comments were made on an internet forum suffered no violation of her article 8 right to respect for private life after a court refused to impose civil liability on the forum's host. The court found in particular that the national courts had acted within their discre

A now-deceased lawyer who alleged a breach of his right to freedom of expression suffered a violation of his Article 10 rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Joaquim Antonio Pais Pires de Lima was a Portuguese national who was born in 1938 and died in 2017. He lived in Cascai

The case against the UK government’s bulk surveillance powers will be heard by the highest chamber of Europe’s human rights court. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will hear a case previously decided by a lower Chamber and brought by Liberty, Privacy Intern

Italy failed to provide proper legal representation to Amanda Knox, the American woman acquitted in 2015 of killing her British housemate, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. It ordered the Italian authorities to pay €18,400 in damages and legal costs.

The UK government has failed to give assurances that it will not repeal or replace the Human Rights Act – a stark contrast to its proclaimed commitment to "shared values of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms" – the House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee has stated. T

An insured man who was surveilled by his insurance company to determine whether his claim for compensation was justified has had his application declared inadmissible by the European Court of Human Rights. Mehmedovic v Switzerland concerned the surveillance of Mr Mehmedovic and, indirectly

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in favour of an Azerbaijani journalist who was subject to a sex-tape smear campaign after investigating government corruption. The ECtHR ruled that the Azerbaijani authorities failed to investigate a “sex video” of Radio Free Europe re