Thomas v United Kingdom
Friday, 25th July 2008
App No 63701/00; 17 July 2008; European Court of Human Rights; Judge Garlicki (President), Judges Bratza, Bonello, Mijovic, Sikuta, Hirvela and Bianku, and Mr T Early (Section Registrar)
This was an application by a widower, who was refused widow’s bereavement allowance, in circumstances where he would have received it if he had been a widow.
Burden v The United Kingdom - Grand Chamber decision
Tuesday, 29th April 2008
The decision of the Grand Chamber in the case of Burden v The United Kingdom has been published. The sisters lost again. The initial objections of the UK Government as to the sisters’ victim status and exhaustion of domestic remedies were dismissed but the main claim by the sisters, that there was a violation of Article 14 of the Convention taken in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1, was also dismissed, by a majority of 15 to 2.
