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“Protecting the Public Purse” in cuts to Social Security: Krajnc v Slovenia

November 30, 2017

By Dr Ben Warwick (University of Birmingham) Krajnc v Slovenia continues the ECtHR’s grappling with the interaction between Convention rights and public finance questions. Relying on Article 1, Protocol 1 the applicant successfully argued that a law change, which resulted in a halving of his disability allowance, was a breach of the Convention. The case […]