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Former Foreign Office minister had suggested some in government were prepared to overlook human rights violations

A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a legal action against 33 European governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over what they say is a failure to adequately tackle global heating. Now, the Strasbourg court will be hearing them on 27 September,…

Deportation flight was scheduled to depart UK on Tuesday night

The initial flight was cancelled at the last minute after a late intervention from the European Court of Human Rights

The plane was scheduled to depart the UK on Tuesday night.

The Home Secretary described the European Court of Human Rights intervention as ‘very surprising’.

The European Court of Human Rights launched a last-gasp intervention in regards to an Iraqi national, who had a judicial review, which forced the plane to remain grounded

Exclusive: Mr Bailey, who is accused in France of the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in Schull, Co Cork 25 years ago, spoke to us in light of a recent European Court ruling that determined that Ireland’s system of retaining and accessing mobile phone metadata breaches EU law

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