In Hayes and Others v. UK, the European Court of Human Rights has, for the first time, applied the second limb of the Sanchez-Sanchez test. The case marks a subtle but significant recalibration of the Court’s stance on irreducible life sentences, and appears to distance the extradition context from the more robust protections established in Vinter v. UK.

As forcefully reminded by the Portuguese judge to the European Court of Human Rights in his dissenting opinion in the case of Öcalan v....

With the judgment issued on 15 October 2019, in case C-218/18 (Dorobantu), the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European...

The matter has been under the public eye for years, but we are now starting to see just how devastating and far-reaching the consequences...