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  • Harriet Ní Chinnéide

L.B. v Hungary: ‘Where is the proportionality of the measure? It is not there. Animal Defenders has been invoked and applied in reverse.’

May 09, 2023

Harriet Ní Chinnéide In L.B. v Hungary, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) applied the general measures doctrine developed in Animal Defenders International v. UK to find that the Hungarian legislative policy of publishing the personal data of taxpayers who were in debt violated Article 8 of the European […]

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Otite v the United Kingdom: What about the incentivising function of process-based review?

January 27, 2023

by Harriet Ní Chinnéide Otite v the United Kingdom revolves around the expulsion of a settled migrant from the United Kingdom following his conviction for two counts of conspiracy to make or supply articles for use in fraud. In its ruling, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that the balancing exercise carried out […]

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Avci v Denmark: The Expulsion of Settled Migrants and the Pitfalls of Process-based Review in Strasbourg

February 04, 2022

Avci v Denmark concerns an expulsion order and a permanent re-entry ban issued by the Danish High Court against Mr Avci, a settled migrant born and raised in Denmark. This judgment provides a clear illustration of the burgeoning trend towards process-based, procedural review by the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter ‘the Court’) –  a […]

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