Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights

www.echr.coe.int

Includes press releases of all new judgements together with summaries and links to the full judgement, a section listing nearly 300 cases and the effect that they have had on domestic laws, full versions of basic texts, lists of pending cases and summaries of cases dealt with since 1999.
cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/search.asp?skin=hudoc-en
Place of first call for full judgements of the European Court of Human Rights and the Commission too.

One Crown Office Row

www.1cor.com/humanrights

This set of Chambers operates a useful free website service containing over 700 reports and commentaries on HR cases from 1998, as well as “practical guidance” on the Act,and some articles.

Department for Constitutional Affairs

www.dca.gov.uk/peoples-rights/human-rights

Various official documents relating to the 1998 Act including official reports on the impact of the 1998 Act on the English courts are interesting, as are the statistics and useful links to ministerial statements and parliamentary material etc.

David Swarbrick

www.swarb.co.uk/liscindex.php

This site by the web-veteran summarises lots of HR cases, both UK and European together with links to the full text: free, though the most up-to-date material is paid-for.

Hieros Gamos

www.hg.org/human.html

For international aspects of human rights, this portal is hard to beat: a massive collection of international materials including treaties, conventions, human rights organisations, academic literature and sites, US caselaw etc. etc.

Yale University

www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/index.html

A similar project to the Hieros Gamos site above.

Doughty Street Chambers

www.doughtystreet.co.uk/human_rights/

Links to human rights sites and results of detailed study on impact in courts of the 1998 Act.

Interights

www.interights.org

An international human rights “law centre” its website contains: a useful searchable collection of human rights caselaw, summarised, indexed and searchable; a set of eclectic publications on various human rights issues and information about its work.