Ed Bates
@edbatesechr.bsky.social
Academic interested in human rights, esp the ECHR - christian - (Norwich City fan) - writing in personal capacity. RTs not endorsement.
@lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social aside from individual cases as activist/ otherwise, I also have the sense that pushback over 201s reflects a feeling that the ECHR's influence just became 'too big' for the political appetite of some. ... extract below from smthg I am writing, which cites Wildhaber (2017)
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
@lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social aside from individual cases as activist/ otherwise, I also have the sense that pushback over 201s reflects a feeling that the ECHR's influence just became 'too big' for the political appetite of some. ... extract below from smthg I am writing, which cites Wildhaber (2017)
Extract from recent speech by UK Attorney General which is of clear relevance to UK-ECHR relations: www.gov.uk/government/s...
May 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Extract from recent speech by UK Attorney General which is of clear relevance to UK-ECHR relations: www.gov.uk/government/s...
@kemibadenochmp.bsky.social '... ECHR rulings morphed so fundamentally that they now limit our ability to control our borders...' - really? Please justify with facts. Re 'Rwanda ruling': ECHR/ Int law held unlawful as R was unsafe so not unlawful per se - as to the law in issue UKSC stated:
February 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@kemibadenochmp.bsky.social '... ECHR rulings morphed so fundamentally that they now limit our ability to control our borders...' - really? Please justify with facts. Re 'Rwanda ruling': ECHR/ Int law held unlawful as R was unsafe so not unlawful per se - as to the law in issue UKSC stated:
@echr.coe.int Update on applications concerning the conflicts and war in Ukraine... hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press#{%...
February 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@echr.coe.int Update on applications concerning the conflicts and war in Ukraine... hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press#{%...
In a speech, the former President of the ECtHR, Siofra O'Leary, comments on how damaging/ irresponsible anti-ECHR statements from politicians such as Suella Braverman could be, and their wider impacts. First a screengrab of the Braverman incident, than an extract from O'Leary's lecture (link below).
December 18, 2024 at 5:49 PM
In a speech, the former President of the ECtHR, Siofra O'Leary, comments on how damaging/ irresponsible anti-ECHR statements from politicians such as Suella Braverman could be, and their wider impacts. First a screengrab of the Braverman incident, than an extract from O'Leary's lecture (link below).