Table of Contents

Part I: The European Convention on Human Rights in Context
1: The European Convention on Human Rights in context
Part II: Enforcement Machinery
2: Admissibility of applications
3: The European Court of Human Rights: Organization, practice, and procedure
4: The execution of the Court's judgments
Part III: The Rights Guaranteed
5: Article 2: The right to life
6: Article 3: Freedom from torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
7: Article 4: Freedom from slavery, servitude, or forced or compulsory labour
8: Article 5: The right to liberty and security of the person
9: Article 6: The right to a fair trial
10: Article 7: Freedom from retroactive criminal offences and punishment
11: Article 8: The right to respect for private and family life, home, and correspondence
12: Article 9: Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion
13: Article 10: Freedom of expression
14: Article 11: Freedom of assembly and association
15: Article 12: The right to marry and to found a family
16: Article 13: The right to an effective national remedy
17: Article 14 (Freedom from discrimination in respect of protected convention rights) and Protocol 12 (Non-discrimination in respect of 'any right set forth by law')
18: Article 15: Derogation in time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation
19: Articles 16-18: Other restrictions upon the rights
20: Article 1, First Protocol: The right to property
21: Article 2, First Protocol: The right to education
22: Article 3, First Protocol: The right to free elections
23: The fourth, sixth, seventh, and thirteenth protocols

About the Author

David Harris, Emeritus Professor in Residence and Co-Director Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham, Michael O'Boyle, Former Deputy Registrar, European Court of Human Rights (2006 -2015), Edward Bates, Associate Professor, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester, Carla Buckley, Research Fellow, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham