On 29 October 2017, it was announced that the UK authorities are planning to revoke the blanket ban on prisoner voting and allow those who are sentenced to under a year in prison to go home for a day and vote. This was done to ensure the compliance with the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Hirst No 2 which was delivered in 2005.
telegraph.co.uk – Tory MPs have labelled the prospect of the Government granting some prisoners voting rights “totally unacceptable” as Theresa May faced a growing rebellion on the issue.
A disappointing Chamber judgment in Hutchinson v the UK led on 17 January 2017 to an equally disappointing Grand Chamber judgment in the same case. This case was a follow-up from the Court’s judgment in Vinter v the UK in which the Court ruled that life sentences without parole which cannot be reviewed are incompatible with the Convention as they violate Article 3 ECHR – the …
2015 is a crucial year for the European Court of Human Rights: a new president will be elected, a major number of judges will be replaced, deputy registrar of the Court Michael O’Boyle has already retired and the Registrar will retire soon. One can argue that the Court is going through a turning point in its history.
On 26 November 2014, the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’ or ‘the Court’) published a press release announcing that it has communicated to the government of Russia two inter-state complaints that the Ukraine has brought against it concerning the events that took place in the Crimea and the Eastern regions of Ukraine (‘the Donbas’) in the spring and summer of 2014.
