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Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights

The Court, based in Strasbourg, was set up as a result of the European Convention on Human Rights, created in 1950. This set out a catalogue of civil and political rights and freedoms. It allows people to lodge complaints against States which have signed up to the Convention for alleged violations of those rights. Although founded in 1950, the Court did not actually come into existence until 1959. It gained its present form as a single European Court of Human Rights when Protocol No. 11 to the ECHR took effect in 1998.

The Court is currently made up of 47 judges, one in principle for every State signed up to the Convention. They are elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and serve for six years. Judges sit on the Court as individuals and do not represent their country.  Website: www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home
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Izevbekhai and Others v. Ireland

Decision on admissibility.

17 May 2011 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Deportation / Forcible return - Female genital mutilation (FGM) - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-state agents of persecution - Rejected asylum-seekers - Social group persecution - State protection - Women-at-risk | Countries: Ireland - Nigeria

O'Donoghue and Others v. the United Kingdom

14 November 2010 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Freedom of religion - Religious discrimination - Right to family life | Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

D v. Ireland

28 June 2006 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Sexual and reproductive rights | Countries: Ireland

Panevskii and Others v. Ireland

13 October 2005 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Expulsion - Jehovah's Witness - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Prosecution vs persecution | Countries: Ireland - Moldova, Republic of

Keegan v. Ireland

26 May 1994 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Family reunification - Immigration law - Right to family life | Countries: Ireland

Brannigan and McBride v. The United Kingdom

22 April 1993 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Ireland - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Open Door and Dublin Well Woman v. Ireland

23 September 1992 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Ireland

Norris c. Irlande

26 October 1988 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Criminal justice - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Right to family life | Countries: Ireland

Norris v. Ireland

26 October 1988 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Criminal justice - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Right to family life | Countries: Ireland

Ireland v. The United Kingdom

13 December 1977 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Ireland - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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