Ed Bates

YouTube video by Prosperity Institute Why and How to Leave the European Convention on Human Rights

How depressing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTj...

The blog post superbly identifies the issues, as set out in recent comments by others in their blog posts - but is it possible to get society to engage? I really wish so. Not helped by Badenoch speech/ narratives: www.conservatives.com/news/kemi-ba...

The developing domestic debate about the ECHR: Navigating two extremes Calls for withdrawal and kneejerk defences of the status quo each risk oversimplifying the UK’s developing political debate about the European Convention on Human Rights. The implications of each p…

*Brilliant*, as ever, by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social - but I fear the tabloid press/ Reform UK are simply not interested in debate, hence tactical positions adopted by ECHR's defenders? The developing domestic debate about the ECHR: Navigating two extremes publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/09/t...

peace and quiet on campus to get on with things.... bar, of course, the inevitable annual (it happens every year, it seems) building noise right outside your office, making it impossible

*2010s (but also today)

@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)

btw I do not think that it was a change of President at the ECtHR that did it (Wildhaber [President up until 2007, was in the minority in Hirst, and an advocate of self-restraint] - but otherwise I see what Lord Reed argues for here...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS
The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience: The ECHR at 75 and the Venice Commission at 35 | 6-7 Nov 25
Submissions on the theme of constitutional resilience in the context of multi-layered human rights protection by 4 June.
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Extract from recent speech by UK Attorney General which is of clear relevance to UK-ECHR relations: www.gov.uk/government/s...

A warm welcome to Mattias Guyomar, judge elected in respect of #France, who takes office today as President of the Court.

He succeeds Marko Bošnjak, who concluded his term as judge elected in respect of #Slovenia & Court President.

If you would like to come to our conference "25 years of the HRA" on 18 September you can get tickets here - www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...

The newest editorial comment by the former president of the European Court of Human Rights, Siofra O’Leary is available on our website. It contains a lot of food for thought for those who are interested in the development of the Strasbourg system of human rights protection: brill.com/view/journal...

Our editor @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social just published his editorial note for the upcoming issue of our journal looking at the social contract within which the @echr.coe.int is operating (open access): brill.com/view/journal...

The ECHR and the Venice Commission: Guardians of Constitutional Resilience, the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Europe url:https://www.biicl.org/events/12030/the-echr-and-the-venice-commission-guardians-of-constitutional-resilience-the-rule-of-law-and-human-rights-in-europe

UK submits shortlist for next judge elected to the European Court of Human Rights UK submits a shortlist of 3 candidates for election as the next judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the UK.

A distinguished (and unpolitical) shortlist for the Parliamentary Assembly to choose from www.gov.uk/government/n...

I'm having a launch event for my book, Judicial Individuality on the UKSC, at 5:30 on Wednesday 30th April.

It will be hosted by the Centre for Public Law at Cambridge, at the Law Faculty.

Guests include Lady Hale, Leah Trueblood and Tom Hickman KC

All are welcome - come along if you're nearby

This was indeed an excellent and lively session, and interested people should catch up the recording/transcript as soon as it is available

YouTube video by Dublin European Law Institute (DELI) The Role of the Council of Europe in the Pursuit of Peace, Justice and Accountability in Ukraine

Last month I organised a major conference at the @deli-dcu.bsky.social / @dublincityuni.bsky.social supported by DFA on the Role of the Council of Europe in the pursuit of peace, justice and accountability In Ukraine.

Conference can now be viewed online: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap0G...

#DCU #CoE

The final meeting of the Core Group of States towards the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Agression in Ukraine concluded yesterday.

Now that the technical ground work is done the question is whether there is political will to establish the tribunal.

Far from certain.

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ICYMI call for papers for conference in September on the impact of the HRA across different disciplines of law

Graphic: Ongoing caseload of the European Court of Human Rights at year end

The UK accounts for a tiny proportion of cases at the European Court of Human Rights.

Very clear @houseoflords.parliament.uk briefing on the 75th anniversary of the #HumanRights convention 👇

🔗 lordslibrary.parliament.uk/75th-anniver...

#ECHR

New call for papers for a conference on the impact of the Human Rights Act across multiple areas of law after 25 years in effect. Conference being put together by @echrhawk.bsky.social and @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social at @lawatleeds.bsky.social this September:

The subject of this year's conference - #HumanRights under #Pressure - could not be more topical...
Join us.

🎤 Panel on Russia, the Council of Europe & the European Convention on Human Rights: A Troubled Membership & Its Legacy.

Moderated by Dr. Tanya Ní Mhuirthile, with insights from Dr. Ed Bates, Prof. Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Dr. Andrew Forde.

@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:

Teachers stop hitting children after Scottish mums complain to Strasbourg - Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - www.coe.int <p>Grace Campbell and Jane Cosans sent their children to state schools which continued to allow the use of corporal punishment. The two mothers complained to the European court, which found that this ...

#OnThisDay in 1982, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that using corporal punishment in UK schools, against parents’ wishes, was not OK.

The practice was subsequently banned, benefitting generations of British children.

🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/impac...

#ECHR

🚨Deadline to Register for the conference on the role of the Council of Europe in the pursuit of peace, justice and accountability In Ukraine (27 February) is this Friday🚨

Minister for European Affairs and Defence, Thomas Byrne + DSG of the @coe.int Bjorn Berge amongst the great line up of speakers.

@echr.coe.int Update on applications concerning the conflicts and war in Ukraine... hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press#{%...

On the one hand, Joshua was the nicest interviewer I could ask for and he gave the themes of the book a proper airing. I really enjoyed the interview.

On the other hand, I was more nervous here than I was during my PhD viva and I think you can tell!

A very timely (from the point of view of my forthcoming seminar reading list) post on an important issue. Good to see @lizaoloughlin.bsky.social and Maurice Sunkin's consultation response getting a name check.