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Landmark EU & Human Rights cases

Foundational UK human rights & EU authorities — ECHR articles, HRA 1998 — ordered by citation impact.

25 landmarks, ordered by citation impact.

  1. 01

    EU Direct Effect — Van Gend en Loos v Netherlands Inland Revenue Administration

    [1963] ECR 1 · European Court of Justice · 1963

    EU Treaty provisions can create directly enforceable individual rights in national courts

  2. 02

    Costa v ENEL

    Case 6/64 · 1964
  3. 03

    EU Supremacy — Costa v ENEL

    [1964] ECR 585 · European Court of Justice · 1964
  4. 04

    Van Duyn v Home Office

    Case 41/74 · 1974
  5. 05

    Free Movement — Van Duyn v Home Office

    [1975] 1 WLR 760 · European Court of Justice · 1975
  6. 06

    Ratti

    Case 148/78 · 1979
  7. 07

    Cassis de Dijon

    Case 120/78 · 1979
  8. 08

    Marshall v Southampton Health Authority

    Case 152/84 · 1986
  9. 09

    Foster v British Gas

    Case C-188/89 · 1990
  10. 10

    Human Rights Act — R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Brind

    [1991] 1 AC 696 · House of Lords · 1991
  11. 11

    R v Secretary of State ex p Factortame (No 2)

    [1991] 1 AC 603 · House of Lords · 1991
  12. 12

    Brasserie du Pêcheur v Germany; R v Secretary of State ex p Factortame (No 4)

    Cases C-46/93 and C-48/93 [1996] ECR I-1029 · European Court of Justice · 1996
  13. 13

    Brasserie du Pecheur

    Cases C-46/93 & C-48/93 · 1996
  14. 14

    Schmidberger

    Case C-112/00 · 2003
  15. 15

    Wilson v First County Trust (No 2)

    [2003] UKHL 40 · House of Lords · 2003
  16. 16

    Omega

    Case C-36/02 · 2004
  17. 17

    Campbell v MGN

    [2004] UKHL 22 · House of Lords · 2004
  18. 18

    R (Ullah) v Special Adjudicator

    [2004] UKHL 26 · House of Lords · 2004

    Removal can breach other Convention rights only if flagrant; courts follow Strasbourg.

  19. 19

    Huang v Secretary of State

    [2007] UKHL 11 · House of Lords · 2007
  20. 20

    Secretary of State v AF (No 3)

    [2009] UKHL 28 · House of Lords · 2009
  21. 21

    Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust

    [2012] UKSC 2 · Supreme Court · 2012

    Article 2 operational duty applies to a voluntary psychiatric patient at real risk of suicide.

  22. 22

    Pringle v Ireland

    Case C-370/12 [2012] EU:C:2012:756 · European Court of Justice · 2012
  23. 23

    R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice

    [2014] UKSC 38 · Supreme Court · 2014

    Supreme Court declined a declaration that the ban on assisted suicide breaches Article 8.

  24. 24

    Beghal v DPP

    [2015] UKSC 49 · Supreme Court · 2015
  25. 25

    R (SG) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

    [2015] UKSC 16 · Supreme Court · 2015