{"title":"The Right of Access to ‘Reliable’ Information Under Article 10 echr: From Meagre Beginnings to New Frontiers","authors":"Katie Pentney","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10093","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Recognition of the right of access to information under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights has been marked by fits and starts. This article charts three phases in the jurisprudence – from outright denial (Phase One), through hesitant recognition (Phase Two), to recognition of a limited right in specified circumstances (Phase Three). The Court’s recent judgment in Association Burestop 55 and Others v France may mark a new frontier (or ‘Fourth Phase’), as the Court recognised for the first time that the right necessarily comprises a qualitative aspect – that is, it requires that the information disclosed is sincere, accurate, sufficient, and reliable. This could have important ramifications for the quality of the information environment in the current ‘post-truth’ era. However, several conceptual challenges, practical limitations, and lingering uncertainties will need to be addressed for the promise of the judgment to be fully realised.","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140678039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Good Administration and the Council of Europe: Law, Principles, and Effectiveness, edited by Ulrich Stelkens and Agnė Andrijauskaitė","authors":"Nikos Vogiatzis","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"35 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140674357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Mastic Trees, the echr, and the iccpr","authors":"Vassilis P. Tzevelekos","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"142 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140694526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The European Convention of Human Rights Regime: Reform of Immigration and Minority Policies From Afar, written by Dia Anagnostou","authors":"Christos Tsevas","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"46 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140700614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Human Right to Psychological Continuity? Reflections on the Rights to Personal Identity, Self-Determination, and Personal Integrity","authors":"S. Ligthart","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10092","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Scholars from different disciplines are increasingly debating how human rights should protect the autonomy not only over our bodies but also over our minds. These debates are often driven by emerging technologies that appear able to access, monitor, and manipulate mental states in ways that were previously inconceivable. Whereas some human rights already protect certain personal interests in the mental realm, such as the right to freedom of thought, it has been argued that new or updated human rights are necessary to offer adequate protection against modern technologies that may threaten our mental privacy, personal integrity, and identity. One of the proposed rights, which is under consideration by the Council of Europe and the UN Human Rights Council, concerns a right to ‘psychological continuity’. This paper challenges the necessity of recognising such a right, arguing that the notion of psychological continuity already receives considerable protection within the established framework of human rights law.","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140714612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee: Two Actors with a Common Mission","authors":"Anja Seibert-Fohr","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140738889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boldness, Caution, Avoidance: Recent Cases Against the UK Before the European Court of Human Rights","authors":"Lewis Graham","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10087","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Strasbourg has faced considerable hostility from United Kingdom (UK) authorities in recent years. But what has been the response of the European Court of Human Rights? Has this criticism resulted in capitulation, backlash, or business as usual? This article offers an empirical assessment of all applications against the UK dealt with by the European Court of Human Rights since 2020. It considers the available quantitative data and broad numbers relating to relevant cases in this period, before examining the substance of its judgments and decisions in greater depth. It describes the areas in which Strasbourg’s approach has been bold, and those areas in which its output is characterised by caution or even avoidance. The picture which emerges is therefore not a straightforward one. However, one notable and important change which emerges from the data seems to be the speed with which applications against the UK are dealt with.","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"277 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140755583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Locking in Human Rights: An Exploration of the Barriers to echr Withdrawal","authors":"Frederick Cowell","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10084","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The possibility of the United Kingdom being able to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (echr or Convention) by way of a denunciation under Article 58(1) of the Convention is complicated by a number of domestic constitutional factors and other international legal obligations. This paper explains how, collectively, these constitute a form of ‘lock in’ to the echr. This makes any future UK withdrawal from the echr highly difficult and liable to cause a range of collateral consequences on the international and domestic legal planes.","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"17 2‐3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140223492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UK Withdrawal From the echr (‘BrECHRit’): From Taboo to Tenable?","authors":"Ed Bates","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10085","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In the 1990s it was almost a taboo for senior United Kingdom (UK) politicians to criticise the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR); however, it has now become commonplace, especially since 2012. There has been more and more criticism of the ECtHR by certain Conservative politicians, the talk including regular references to the possibility that the UK could withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (echr). Increasingly UK withdrawal (‘BrECHRit’) has been presented as a credible position – a tenable, not taboo option. This article charts this trend and provides a critical analysis of the same, contextualised to the various legal developments occurring in parallel with it. It sets out what is referred to as the ‘closed’/‘inward-looking’ approach adopted to the echr by UK Conservative politicians since 2012, and points out that this has roots going back to at least the 1990s.","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"69 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140248622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The United Kingdom and the European Convention on Human Rights: Together Until the End?","authors":"K. Dzehtsiarou","doi":"10.1163/26663236-bja10086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26663236-bja10086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":306057,"journal":{"name":"European Convention on Human Rights Law Review","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140257260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}