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An Irish woman has lodged an application before the European Court of Human Rights over Portuguese authorities' alleged failure to properly investigate her rape. Christian Brückner, a convicted sex offender currently imprisoned in Germany for similar offences, was acquitted by a German court la

A mother whose parental authority over her daughter was terminated just four months after the child was taken into foster care suffered a violation of her right to respect for her family life, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Ruling yesterday on a Dutch case, the Strasbourg court found

A lawyer in Serbia who was fined for insulting a judge did not suffer a violation of his right to freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Čedomir Backović was fined 100,000 Serbian dinars, around €910 at the time, after sarcastically referring to a court as compri

A prominent British businessman identified as the subject of allegations of sexual harassment and bullying by a member of the House of Lords, who used parliamentary privilege to circumvent a court injunction, did not suffer a violation of his privacy rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ru

The Council of Europe's secretary general, Alain Berset, has called for further efforts to implement judgments from the European Court of Human Rights. The annual report for 2024 on the execution of the court’s rulings from the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers shows that 992 ca

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has dismissed applications from a group of pro-independence Catalan parliamentarians who alleged that Spain violated their rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and political participation.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled against Russia in a case brought by two media organisations and 178 individuals over the criminalisation of dissent around the war on Ukraine. In today's Chamber judgment, the court held unanimously that Russia had violated Article 10 of the Europ

The European Court of Human Rights is to set up an ethics council to advise the president of the court on matters of judicial ethics. The president will be able to consult the new ethics council whenever they consider it necessary to give guidance to a judge seeking advice on compliance with the eth

Irish judge Síofra O'Leary, the first woman and the first Irish person to serve as president of the European Court of Human Rights, has received the UCD Ulysses Medal. The UCD Ulysses Medal is the highest honour bestowed by University College Dublin.

The publisher of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday was wrongly forced to pay excessive costs after losing privacy and defamation proceedings in the UK, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Associated Newspapers Limited suffered a violation of its rights under Article 10 (freedom

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.