A Practitioner's Handbook Uǧur Erdal, Hasan Bakirci. ANNEX I OFTHE ISTANBUL PROTOCOL: PRINCIPLES ON THE EFFECTIVE INVESTIGATION AND DOCUMENTATION OFTORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT ...
This book is a systematic commentary on half a century of case law on the Convention system made by a group of legal experts from various universities and legal disciplines.
This book argues that the degrading treatment element of the right is a crucial site of analysis, in itself and for understanding the parameters of the right as a whole.
1) The European Convention on Human rights in context. 2) Article 2: The right to life. 3) Article 3: Freedom from torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 4) Article 4: Freedom from slavery, servitude or forced or ...
This book offers a comprehensive analysis and comparison of the practice and case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Committee against Torture in the assessment of individual complaints concerning the principle of non ...
The applicants were the parents, half-brother, and sister of Vincent Lambert who sustained a head injury in a road traffic accident in 2008 as a result of which he entered a persistent vegetative state. The French Conseil d'État had ...
However, the Court has increasingly drawn criticism, with questions raised about its legitimacy and backlog of cases. This book for the first time brings together the critics of the Court and its proponents to debate these issues.
This book provides a practical guide to the social security issues which have been considered by the Court of Human Rights, and gives an overview of how these have been analyzed by the Court.
indicate that the ECJ does not have a favourable attitude towards fundamental rights.51 However, this image of the ECJ as a reluctant and ... 55 E.g., Orfanopoulos, C-493/01; see further D. Sarmiento, 'Who's Afraid of the Charter?
This open access book theorises and concretises the idea of 'absolute rights' in human rights law with a focus on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The term 'margin of appreciation' has been used for some time to refer to the room for manoeuvre that the Strasbourg institutions are prepared to accord national authorities in fulfilling some of their principal obligations under the ...