1st Edition
Domestic Abuse and the European Court of Human Rights
By Ronagh J.A. McQuigg
Copyright 2025
114 Pages
by
Routledge
114 Pages
by
Routledge
114 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides a detailed critical analysis of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on domestic abuse. Such abuse affects vast numbers of people throughout all nations of the world. Although it was not until 2007 that domestic abuse was considered substantively by the European Court of Human Rights, it has now been established that such abuse can constitute a violation of... Read more
1. Introduction and Context; 2. Conceptualising Domestic Abuse; 3. Domestic Abuse as Gender-Based Discrimination; 4. Domestic Abuse and the ‘Osman Test’; 5. Recent Issues in the Jurisprudence of the ECtHR on Domestic Abuse; 6. Conclusions
Biography
Ronagh J.A. McQuigg is a Reader in the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests are in the area of International Human Rights Law, and she currently teaches in the areas of Land Law and Family Law.
