Who can sue a public authority under the Human Rights Act?
Claims of unlawful action, via judicial review proceedings, or reliance on Convention rights in other legal proceedings, are restricted to ‘victims’ – a concept from ECtHR law which has been directly imported into the UK Human Rights regime by section 7(7) and 7(3). In the view of the ECtHR, a victim is ‘any person, non-governmental […]
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