HATTON AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM - 36022/97

The European Court of Human Rights, sitting as a Grand Chamber composed of the following judges:

Mr L. Wildhaber , President , Mr J.-P. Costa , Mr G. Ress , Mr G. Bonello , Mrs E. Palm , Mr I. Cabral Barreto , Mr R. Türmen , Mrs V. StráZnická , Mr V. Butkevych , Mr B. Zupančič , Mrs N. Vajić , Mrs S. Botoucharova , Mr A. Kovler , Mr V. Zagrebelsky , Mrs E. Steiner , Mr S. Pavlovschi , Sir Brian Kerr , ad hoc judge , and also of Mr P.J. Mahoney , Registrar ,

The applicants were represented by Mr R. Buxton, a lawyer practising in Cambridge. The United Kingdom Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr H. Llewellyn, of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

The applicants alleged that government policy on night flights at Heathrow Airport gave rise to a violation of their rights under Article 8 of the Convention and that they were denied an effective domestic remedy for this complaint, contrary to Article 13 of the Convention.

The application was transmitted to the Court on 1 November 1998, when Protocol No. 11 to the Convention came into force (Article 5 § 2 of Protocol No. 11).