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Dr Síofra O'Leary, who recently completed her term as president of the European Court of Human Rights, has been awarded the honorary degree of LLD by the University of Edinburgh. Dr O’Leary’s laureation address was given by Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne, who also co-sponsored her n

A criminal ban on buying sex does not violate the rights of sex workers, the European Convention on Human Rights has ruled. The Strasbourg court yesterday handed down its judgment in a case brought by 261 men and women of various nationalities who said they habitually and lawfully sell sex in France

There is no right to assisted dying under European human rights law, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled by a 6-1 majority. Dániel Karsai, a prominent human rights lawyer in Budapest, Hungary, unsuccessfully argued that the criminalisation of physician-assisted dying (PAD) violated h

Russia violated the rights of a schoolteacher who was sacked in 2014 over social media posts including photos of her kissing other women, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The teacher, AK, began working as a music teacher in a state school for children with special needs in her home town

Italy can lawfully reclaim a 2,000-year-old Greek statue from the Getty Museum in California, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Victorious Youth has been at the centre of a legal row for years after Italy alleged it had been obtained illegally by the J Paul Getty Trust.

The European Court of Human Rights is “backsliding” by surreptitiously reversing its principles established to protect asylum seekers, according to a new study. It is a decade since the court first established that asylum seekers are inherently and particularly vulnerable in law.

Ms Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh has been elected to serve as the next Irish judge on the European Court of Human Rights. The Court of Appeal judge was the overwhelming choice of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), with only a handful of votes cast yesterday for r

The European Court of Human Rights has published a factsheet on past and pending cases concerning climate change. The document has been published following the Strasbourg court's landmark rulings yesterday on three climate cases. The applicants were successful in one of the cases, and unsuccessful i

Switzerland is failing to meet its human rights obligations by not taking sufficient action to tackle climate change, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in a landmark case. The Strasbourg court today handed down judgments in three landmark cases, which represented the first climate

Eoin Jackson looks ahead to upcoming rulings on climate litigation before the European Court of Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights has recently announced that it will deliver its rulings in three major climate cases — Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, Ca

A refusal by Poland's Constitutional Court to disclose two judges' meeting diaries to an NGO breached its right to freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. The NGO had submitted requests for information in the context of media speculation over whether the two judg

Judge Fergal Gaynor, Ms Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh and Professor Colm Ó Cinnéide have been named as the candidates to succeed Judge Síofra O'Leary on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will next m

A legal challenge brought by more than 250 sex workers against France's ban on the purchase of sex is to be heard by the European Court of Human Rights. The ECtHR today decided by a majority that the applications brought by 261 men and women who say they are "habitually engaged in prostitution, in a

Russian protest band Pussy Riot suffered degrading treatment at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics when band members were whipped and pepper-sprayed by Cossack security forces, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Chamber judgment in the case of Verzilov and Others v. Rus

Caster Semenya, two-time 800m Olympic champion, faced discrimination due to rules requiring her to reduce her naturally high testosterone levels to continue competing, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Ms Semenya has a condition causing higher testosterone levels than most women.