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Elections

20 February 2015
Issue: 7641 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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McHugh and others v United Kingdom (App No 51987/08) [2015] ECHR 51987/08, [2015] All ER (D) 95 (Feb)

The 1,015 applicant serving prisoners complained that they were prevented from voting in elections, relying on Art 3 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights, in allowing the application, held that there had been a violation of Art 3, given that the impugned legislation remained unamended after the court’s decision in Greens v United Kingdom (App No 60041/08) [2010] All ER (D) 280 (Nov), which had required amendment to render the electoral law compatible with the requirements of the Convention.

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