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Welcome to the NHS Litigation Authority Human Rights Act Database

This database provides summaries of key human rights cases of relevance to the NHS, together with links to the full text of many of the judgments. You can search in a variety of ways: using freetext words or phrases, by Article of the European Convention, by court, by date, by keyword or by any combination of these.

These summaries are provided as part of the NHSLA's Human Rights Act Information Service which aims to keep NHS colleagues up-to-date on developments in healthcare law as a result of the Human Rights Act. The contents should not be regarded as constituting legal advice.

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Acknowledgments: full text copies of High Court and Court of Appeal cases are provided courtesy of Smith Bernal Wordwave Ltd (www.casetrack.com); full text copies of Privy Council judgments are Crown copyright and provided courtesy of the Privy Council (privy-council.org.uk); and full text copies of ECHR judgments are provided courtesy of the European Court of Human Rights (www.echr.coe.int). Publisher of the official ECHR reports: Carl Heymanns Verlag KG, Luxemburger Strasse 449, D-50939, Köln, Germany