Art 8 Flashcards
Article 8
Right to respect for; family life, home life, correspondence and private life
Not an absolute right, can be infringed by the art 8(2) categories
Osman v UK
Art 8 has a positive obligation
R v AG
Private life does not extend as far as to protect hobbies (foxhunting)
Costello-Roberts v UK
Private life extends to personal well being. Corporal punishment prohibited
Von Hannover v Gemany
Art 8 extends to image
Dudgeon v UK
Art 8 extends to sex life. Art 8 violation to prohibit homosexuality
ADT v UKq
Art 8 infringed by police raid on gay S + M orgy
R (Gillan) v UK
UK court judged that stop and search powers were not a serious enough to be an art 8 violation
Gillan and Quintox v UK
Stop and search powers appealed to Strasbourg and judged that stop and search powers were an art 8 violation as the powers were not clearly enough defined to be prescribed by law. At what level stop and search became a violation was not set so was an art 8 infringement
Wainwright v UK
- Search where woman was strip searched without discretion for privacy was art 8 violation
- The infringement was not proportionate
Khan v Uk
Recording of a drug deal was art 8 violation
R (Wood) v Police Commisioner
Retention of photographs of a protester was an art 8 violation due to length of time retained
Peck v UK
Council’s use of images from CCTV camera were beyond what was proportionate in the prevention of crime, as submitted for an article in a newspaper. To interfere with right to privacy in pursuit of prevention of crime would have been justified but for the disproportionate use of his image
R (Wright) v SOS Health
Provisional listing of nurses as inappropriate to work with vulnerable adults was not proportionate to aim of protecting health and morals of others because there had been no conviction.
H + L v A City COuncil
Disclosure of past convictions where it was irrelevant to the job was an art 8 infringement as disproportionate to aim of protecting health and morals
McKennit v Ash
Right to home life fiercely protected
Pinnock v MCC
In infringing someone’s right to home life there must be proportionate consideration of the impact of the decision on the individual and wider society