Article 8 - Case List

Question 1

Private Life: Pretty v UK

Answer 1

A person’s physical and psychological integrity will include: physical and social identity, gender identity, name and sexual orientation

Question 2

Family Life: Johansen v Norway

Answer 2

court stated that particular weight should be attached to the best interests of the child, which may override those of the parent

Question 3

Home: Niemietz v Germany

Answer 3

police searched a lawyer’s office to try to identify a suspect. The search was part of ‘home’ and the lawyers private life

Question 4

Home: Niemietz v Germany: Decision

Answer 4

‘it would be too restrictive to limit the notion of an ‘inner circle’ in which the individual may live his own personal life as he chooses and to exclude there from entirely the outside world not encompassed within that circle’

included work

Question 5

Correspondance: Barbulescu v Romania

Answer 5

the employer was found to be in violation as their IT policy didn’t set out the extent to which their internet usage and online communications would be monitored