Sentence examples for And echr from inspiring English sources

Scotland's SNP government is pro-EU and ECHR.

Certainly there is something strange about the EU regime, which empowers judges, whether in secular France or mildly theocratic England, to lay down a view on what this or that religion requires.But as Mr Heys points out, employers face an almost impossible situation as they try to weave their way between national, EU and ECHR jurisprudence.

Human rights to life and privacy (Articles 2 and 8, ECHR) enable more generalised human rights to health and to non-interference from the State.

The French government did not violate articles 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and 14 ECHR (right not to be discriminated against in one's enjoyment of Convention rights and freedoms) in not allowing one partner in a homosexual couple to adopt the child of the other, according to Gas and Dubois v France (2012) (application no 25951/07 - judgment in French).

His comments are a robust response to criticism directed at Strasbourg and the ECHR by the home secretary, Theresa May, and the lord chief justice, Lord Judge.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (ECHR), which commissioned the report with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, urged the government to take urgent action to address the problem.

As a result of Russia's ratification of the Convention in 1998, Russia is bound by the Convention and any ECHR decisions interpreting it.

The study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (ECHR) suggests that discrimination has risen significantly since 2005, when 45% of women said they had experienced such discrimination.

Our Member States' constitutions and the ECHR prove that.

And so the aggrieved applicants went to the European Court of Human Rights, invoking Article 8 (right to respect for his private and family life) and Article 14 ECHR (right not to be discriminated against in one's enjoyment of Convention rights and freedoms).

How on earth could she tell the prime minister that "I propose that the government does not support this amendment because it would be incompatible with the ECHR and counter-productive" and then, as the home secretary responsible for enforcing law and order in Britain, simply sit there, just scared of her own backbenchers, and fail to vote?