Why the ECHR Decided not to Revise its Judgment in the Ireland v. The United Kingdom Case

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Iulia Padeanu is a current Robina Human Rights Fellow at the European Court of Human Rights. She recently graduated from Yale Law School and holds an M.A. in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen’s University, Belfast and a B.A. in International Studies and History from Boston College.

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Why the ECHR Decided not to Revise its Judgment in the Ireland v. The United Kingdom Case

April 5, 2018

Iulia Padeanu

The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) recently rejected a request by Ireland to revise its judgment in the 1978 Ireland v. The United Kingdom case, where the Court found that the use by the then U.K. government of five techniques of interrogation on fourteen individuals amounted to “inhuman and degrading treatment” in breach of Article 3…