Institution or law · ECHR Art. 19
European Court of Human Rights
In plain English
The Council of Europe's court in Strasbourg. It decides complaints that a state has breached the European Convention on Human Rights, including the right to private life in Article 8.
What the law says
To ensure the observance of the engagements undertaken by the High Contracting Parties in the Convention and the Protocols thereto, there shall be set up a European Court of Human Rights, hereinafter referred to as "the Court". It shall function on a permanent basis.
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