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Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins EU appeal against Swiss ruling over 'rights infringement'

South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya has won her appeal at the European Court of Human Rights, which challenged whether her rights had been infringed in terms of requiring women with high testosterone to reduce those levels through drugs.

Radio France Internationale

French, Swiss climate policy goes on trial in European rights court

The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday began hearing cases against the governments of France and Switzerland over their alleged failings to protect the environment.

Radio France Internationale

Rishi Sunak warned giving in to Tory right on asylum bill will ‘erode trust’

Up to 60 rebel Tory MPs said to want ban on Strasbourg court orders on deportation

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Strikes bill could breach UK workers' human rights and expose the government to legal challenges

UK workers’ human rights are at risk under government plans to curb strike activity, according to a report by parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights. The strikes (minimum service levels) bill 2023 aims to set requirements for the level of service needed in certain key sectors during strike action.

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Tory MPs urge ministers to curb European judges’ influence on UK migrant policy

The Home Secretary faced calls from her backbench colleagues to ensure the Illegal Migration Bill seeks to curb the influence of the ECHR.

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European court rules in favour of whistleblower in Luxembourg leaks case

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled in favour of a former employee of accounting firm PwC, saying his 2016 conviction for leaking data about Luxembourg's tax deals with large corporations violated his right to freedom of expression.

Reuters

Archie Battersbee: Timeline of battle over brain damaged 12-year-old’s life support

Archie died in August last year after his parents Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee fought to keep him on life support

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ECHR says it can hear case against Russia over MH17 downing

The Netherlands and Ukraine are pursuing Moscow over its pre-February 2022 actions in eastern Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

European court rules Ukraine cases against Russia admissible

Europe’s top human rights court has ruled that it can adjudicate cases brought by the Netherlands and Ukraine against Russia for alleged rights violations in eastern Ukraine in 2014, including the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

The Independent UK

European rights court rules Ukraine, MH-17 cases against Russia are admissible

The European Court of Human Rights said cases brought by Ukraine and the Netherlands against Russia over alleged human rights violations in the breakaway Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine, and the shooting down of Flight MH-17, were admissible.

Reuters

Woman who accuses French Interior Minister Darmanin of rape vows to fight on

Sophie Patterson-Spatz, the woman who accuses French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin of rape, says she'll continue her legal fight in the wake of a decision by the Paris Appeals Court to dismiss charges against the minister.

Radio France Internationale

ECHR asks Britain to respond to election interference legal claim

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday requested a response from the British government to a legal claim brought by three lawmakers who accuse it of failing to properly investigate alleged Russian interference in elections.

Reuters

Racial hatred conviction against French far-right politician upheld by ECHR

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a conviction for incitement to racial hatred and discrimination against far-right French presidential candidate and polemicist Eric Zemmour was not a violation of his freedom of expression.

Reuters

What happens next with the plans to deport people to Rwanda?

The High Court on Monday ruled that the policy to remove people to the east African nation is lawful.

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UK’s bid to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is ‘lawful’: High Court

Judges say the UK government’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is legal.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson backs Tory plan to defy European court on Rwanda deportations

Bill to take back ’parliamentary sovereignty’ over European Court of Human Rights is fresh challenge to Rishi Sunak

Daily Mirror

Brother wants sister to be jailed after bitter feud over father's £100million fortune

Businesswoman and Toni and Guy stylist Louise Reeves has been branded "ruthless and materialistic" in a feud with her brother over their multi-millionaire father's fortune

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David Tennant 'wasn't sure if image was him or Alexander Litvinenko'

Ahead of Litvinenko being streamed on ITVx the Scot's transformation into the poisoned Russian who was murdered in 2006 even fooled the Doctor Who star himself

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Brexiteer Owen Paterson suing the government at the European Court of Human Rights over ‘privacy breach’

The former minister was suspended from the House of Commons for breaking lobbying rules

The National (Scotland)

Brexiteer Owen Paterson takes Government to European court over lobbying probe

FORMER Tory Cabinet minister Owen Paterson is taking the Government to the European Court of Human Rights after he was found guilty of an…

The Independent UK

Owen Paterson takes Government to European court over lobbying probe

The ex-Tory MP and longstanding Eurosceptic is arguing that his right to privacy under the European Convention of Human Rights was breached.

Daily Mirror

Brexiteer ex-Tory MP Owen Paterson complains to European Court over suspension

The veteran Tory MP quit before he could be suspended for 30 days over a report which found him guilty of 'egregious' breaches of lobbying rules

The Independent UK

City of London ‘concerned about Bill of Rights’ impact on businesses’

The Bill of Rights will return to Parliament ‘sooner rather than later’, with a date still to be officially confirmed.

The Independent UK

Amnesty urges Ireland to take case to Europe if UK legacy bill becomes law

A Troubles victim told an Irish committee that the UK government’s legacy bill was ‘despicable’.

Reuters

Turks risk losing Europe's human rights protections after court spurned

Nebahat Akkoc says her life began afresh after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2000 that she had suffered torture while in Turkish custody, emboldening her and others to carry on their fight for women's rights.

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