Detention and the Right to Liberty : Addressing Gaps in Protection at the European Court of Human Rights / Sabina Garahan.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Aims of this book -- Methods and approaches -- Conclusions -- 1 Framing discretion at the European Court of Human Rights -- Introduction -- The significance of Article 5 as a limited right -- The mandatory nature of evolutive interpretation at the Court -- The living instrument doctrine and the margin of appreciation as methods of evolutive interpretation -- Challenging expansions to subsidiarity - the undermining of oversight-based approaches -- The advent of efficiency-based subsidiarity -- The expansion of process-based subsidiarity -- Justifications for the use of autonomous concepts -- The use of autonomous concepts under Article 5 -- Conclusion -- 2 An increased role for consensus in the progressive interpretation of the right to liberty -- Introduction -- An evolutive role for consensus -- Current challenges to the evolutive role of consensus -- Consensus and the evolutive function of margin review -- Consensus as a tool of effectiveness and harmonisation -- Use of the margin of appreciation in Article 5 adjudication -- Consensus in the adjudication of the right to liberty -- Conclusion -- 3 An evolutive interpretation of justifications for detention -- Introduction -- The consensus shown by further Protocols to the Convention -- The lack of an evolutive approach to pre-trial protections under Article 5 3 -- Discretion in the length of pre-trial detention -- Discretion in the context of bail -- Discretion in the aims of immigration detention under Article 5 1 (f) -- Subsidiarity in evaluating safeguards from arbitrary immigration detention -- The lack of an evolutive approach to immigration detention -- Discretion in the 'educational supervision' of minors under Article 5 1 (d) -- Conclusion.

4 An evolutive approach to Article 5 proportionality -- Introduction -- Proportionality testing under the Convention -- Proportionality testing under a limited right -- Balancing the exhaustive right to liberty against the public interest -- Balancing the underdeveloped right to liberty with competing Convention rights -- The use of consensus in proportionality testing under Article 5 -- Conclusion -- 5 Discretion in adjudicating a right to liberty free from abuse of power or discrimination -- Introduction -- The impact of the Court's review of Article 18 on Article 5 discretion -- The advent of the 'plurality of purposes' approach -- Evidentiary challenges in establishing bad faith -- Discretion in the adjudication of Article 14 in conjunction with Article 5 -- Lessons for the Court's review of Articles 18 and 5 claims -- Allegations of discriminatory sentencing policies -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Key challenges -- Towards an evolutive reading of the right to liberty -- Index.

This book is a ground-breaking study of how the European Court of Human Rights interprets Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the right to liberty and security. It presents an original framework for the progressive interpretation of the right to liberty.

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