# echr - Today’s News
# echr - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
The new law is a draft and some important issues raised by its publication need clarification, write law experts Jennifer Schweppe and Dr Eimear Spain.
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# echr - Monday 29 April, 2013
Brian Walsh says the Oireachtas hearings found abortion cannot treat suicidal ideation – and won’t allow it be included.
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# echr - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Louise O’Keeffe claims that the State is liable for abuse she suffered at the hands of a school principal in Kinsale, Co Cork in the 1970s.
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# echr - Friday 28 December, 2012
A Government department predicted both an ECHR defeat and a Supreme Court ruling allowing a constitutional right to abortion – years before each ever happened.
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# echr - Thursday 29 November, 2012
TheJournal.ie takes a look at the procedure – and why the failure to implement the Coroners’ Bill 2007 impacts this case.
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# echr - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
Justice Minister Alan Shatter was speaking as the government prepares to respond to the expert group on abortion’s report before the end of the year. TDs will also debate and vote on abortion legislation tonight.
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# echr - Friday 23 November, 2012
The Department of Health said the government still intends to bring the report to Cabinet on Tuesday.
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# echr - Monday 27 August, 2012
Pat Rabbitte says he doesn’t want the Church weighing into an abortion debate “in the political sense”. Do you?
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# echr - Sunday 26 August, 2012
Seán Brady says the ruling in the X Case was “flawed” and a referendum is needed to reverse it, but Pat Rabbitte disagrees.
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# echr - Wednesday 23 May, 2012
In Ireland prisoners currently have the right to vote, but it’s not the same story across the EU. The ECHR has ruled that a blanket ban is illegal.
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# echr - Thursday 12 April, 2012
The European Court of Human Rights said it was within Germany’s rights to stop a brother and sister from having a family life.
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# echr - Sunday 1 April, 2012
It’s reported that the UK government is seeking the power to monitor calls, texts, emails and web visits under new legislation.
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# echr - Tuesday 7 February, 2012
Twenty years on from the X case, is now the time to look at Ireland’s stance on abortion?
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# echr - Monday 23 January, 2012
An Irish priest, whose trial for alleged sexual abuse took almost 13 years, wins damages at the European Court of Human Rights.
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# echr - Friday 13 January, 2012
The group of 14 medics, lawyers and civil servants have six months to report back on how to implement the ECHR judgment.
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# echr - Thursday 15 September, 2011
The government has been criticised by interest groups over its failure to propose “efficient measures” regarding abortion access in Ireland – despite a ruling by Europe’s top court compelling the state to address the issue.
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# echr - Wednesday 14 September, 2011
Muhammad Younis from Pakistan was forced to work in what have been described as chronic conditions in a Clondalkin restaurant for seven years.
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# echr - Tuesday 18 January, 2011
The Daily Mirror wins its argument that being made to pay Naomi Campbell’s legal “success fees” is unlawful.
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# echr - Thursday 16 December, 2010
One of the three women who claimed that her rights were violated by Ireland’s ban on abortion wins a landmark legal challenge.
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