Human Rights Flashcards
Ambrose 2011
STRASBOURG
Ceiling and Floor
Hope: go beyond = judge made rights
Al Rawi 2011
STRASBOURG
Margin of appreciation
Not ceiling
Kennedy 2014
STRASBOURG
Continuing significance - common law rights
Osborn 2013
STRASBOURG
Misguided to look just at S
‘Not however supersede the protection of HR under the common
law or statute’
Daly 2001
PROPORTIONALITY
Rights v Public Interest
A v SoS HD 2004
PROPORTIONALITY
Belmarsh
P not met = DOI
Dissent - 3 wall jail
Re S (Minor)
S3 - POSSIBLE?
New Scheme of Judicial Oversight
Cross boundary - interpret, amend
Ghaidan 2004
Gay - interpret even when: no ambiguity + need to depart from P intent
Wilkinson 2005
New Rule of S Const - presume P intent not to legislate against rights
Bellinger v Bellinger 2003
Marriage void if not between man and woman
Major change
in law = for P
Nicklinson 2014
S4 - DOI
Assisted Suicide - already considering matter
Burden v UK 2008
S4 - DOI
Not effective remedy but wait and see
Aston Can. v Wallbank 2003
PUBLIC BODIES
‘gov in the broad sense’
Church - hybrid public body
YL v Birm CC 2007
PUBLIC BODIES
Care home resident - publicly funded
Private home = private provider
Begum 2006
OUTCOME OR PROCEDURE FOCUS?
Jilbab - HRA focus on outcome
Miss Behavin 2007
OUTCOME OR PROCEDURE FOCUS?
Outcome - Hoffman
Hale - C explicitly considering balancing = court ought not intervene
Anufrijeva 2003
DAMAGES
Secondary to ending infringement
R (Infinis) v Ofgem 2011
DAMAGES
Breach property rights - £2.7M awarded
Smith & Grady v UK 1999
Ban homo army - not proportional
Financial award
Handyside v UK 1979
DEFERING
Book teach children about sex - no uniform morals = defer
Entick v Carrington
1795
PROTECTION PRIOR TO HRA
Invasion of property - Common Law
Beatty v Gillbanks 1882
PROTECTION PRIOR TO HRA
Disturb peace nat consequence = liable
Malone v UK 1984
PROTECTION PRIOR TO HRA
Phone tapping - legitimate aim still need to comply to RoL - exact limits
Simms 1999
PROTECTION PRIOR TO HRA
Prevent prisoners from speaking to press - unlawful
Georgia v Russia 2014
ECHR
2006 expulsion of Georgian Nat
Golder v UK 1975
ECHR
Prisoners - access to solicitor - inherent in A6
Sunday Time v UK 1979
ECHR
HL injunction on thalidomide story
Breach free speech
Hirst v UK 2005
ECHR
Blanket ban on prisoner voting - margin of appreciation but still breach - never resolved
Ward
ECHR - ‘emerged rather apologetically in the form of a Declaration’- constraint rather than source of power
6(2) Maastricht 1992
‘union shall respect fundamental rights’
6(1) T Amsterdam 1997
‘founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for HR’
Commission on a BOR, A Second Consultation 2012
HRA minus?
Symbolic?
Rights Bought Home 1997
‘growing awareness that it is not sufficient to rely on common law’
More efficient + Influence case law + familiarity with Br law
Dicey
Conventions + Politics + Common Law Spirit
Bradley
New Duty - substance
New Judicial power - DOI -wound likely to prove fatal
Lester QC
‘never again permit sov to shield from international liability’
