European Court Of Human Rights

A prisoner has brought a High Court challenge over restrictions on prison visits. Kevin Hannaway (71) is serving a sentence of three years and nine m(...)

The Government is drafting legislation which will allow criminal defendants to apply for compensation for delayed trials. Under the European Conventi(...)

In Ireland high public office is only for the religious, and our court system ignores the rights of atheists, despite the fact that we pride ourselves(...)

German police searching an allotment plot used by the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have reportedly found a cellar once belie(...)

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has re-affirmed a commitment he made in opposition to set up an ex-gratia payment system for people who were sexually abused (...)

Children’s rights campaigner Louise O’Keeffe has called on both Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar to deliver on promises to compensat(...)

The Dutch supreme court has dashed the repatriation hopes of so-called jihadi wives and their children by ruling that the government has no obligation(...)

Seven judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, presided over by Irishwoman Síofra O’Leary, have overturned a conviction by France’s(...)

Police in Northern Ireland will begin “real-time” deletion of DNA records in September. The indefinite storage of a convicted drink-driver’s profile,(...)

An application from the serial murderer Mark Nash to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has been thrown out. In an application (...)