Mistaken links between the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights could be one factor that sees the UK losing out on these vital supranational laws.
Articles on European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
Displaying 21 - 40 of 44 articles
Despite its controversial nature, new research into the not proven verdict shows it helps juries ascribe guilt more adequately.
Despite its reputation, Russia has contributed much more to international law than it’s sometimes given credit for.
… and why their treatment angered human rights campaigners at the time.
The Conservative party manifesto’s repudiation of the ‘libertarian right’ bodes ill for the European Court of Human Rights.
A Norwegian appeal court has ruled that the mass murderer’s human rights are not being violated by the conditions of his imprisonment.
Three key rulings by the UK Supreme Court and their legal implications.
The European Court of Human Rights will consider whether Breivik’s human rights have been violated by his solitary detention.
The UK government plans to suspend parts of the European Convention on Human Rights in future conflicts.
Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘named person’ plan for supporting children is a good idea with a major flaw.
It is no threat to UK sovereignty and protects vulnerable citizens – so why replace the Human Rights Act?
The home secretary is campaigning against Brexit, but with a caveat.
The Conservatives have got it half-right by seeking to repeal the Human Rights Act. Too bad they want to replace it with something almost as unhelpful.
Cameron backs down on plans to cut ties with Europe to avoid a backbench revolt – but this isn’t over.
Citizens need to be able to seek remedies for breaches of human rights in our own courts.
You’d think that the “conscience of Europe” would strive to protect migrants’ human rights.
North Korea is outraged over an upcoming conference in Washington DC about its human rights abuses, to which it has not been invited. Pyongyang strongly denies that it has been alienating the human rights…
It is bitterly ironic that in this, the 800th anniversary year of Magna Carta, there are threats from the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. This convention is Europe’s own Magna…
David Cameron is riding into the 2015 election campaign with a promise to finally fulfil one of the Conservatives’ 2010 manifesto commitments: to repeal the 1998 Human Rights Act, restore the sovereignty…
David Cameron has nailed his colours to the mast by promising to create a British bill of rights. His intention is clear – the Human Rights Act will be abolished and the UK will abandon the European Convention…
Top contributors
-
Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Liverpool
-
Senior Lecturer in Law, researcher in international law, Birkbeck, University of London
-
Professor, Lancaster Law School, Lancaster University
-
Professor of Refugee Law, School of Advanced Study, University of London
-
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, UCD Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin
-
Professor Emeritus of Applied Philosophy, Glasgow Caledonian University
-
Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary University of London, Queen Mary University of London
-
Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
-
Associate Professor of Politics, Richmond American International University
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Law , University of Portsmouth
-
Associate Professor of Russian Politics, UCL
-
Professor of International Human Rights Law, Queen Mary University of London
-
Professor of Law, University of Essex
-
Senior Lecturer in Law, Leeds Beckett University
-
Professor of Law and Anthropology, University of Brighton