Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on Implementation

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (the Commission) welcomes the opportunity to provide evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the government's response to human rights judgments.

In line with its remit, as a National Human Rights Institution and under s.9 Equality Act 2006, to encourage and support the development of a society based on human rights principles, the Commission has a role in encouraging and assisting public authorities to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) expeditiously and effectively.

The legal analysis presented in the attached submission is based on an understanding of what compliance with the judgment in each case requires, and sets out in brief the Commission’s relevant activity in relation to each issue. It does not address cases where the violation arises from the facts of the case rather than the underlying legislative or policy context; nor where the Commission’s legal analysis suggests that only individual measures or payment of compensation (just satisfaction) are required rather than general measures to implement the judgment. Initially, there is a brief consideration of the more general sections in the Government’s 2012 Report on responding to human rights judgments.

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Last Updated: 17 Oct 2013