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..... where the state, having set up an institution such as a school or other educational establishment, takes discriminatory measures within the meaning of article 14 read with article 2 of the first protocol which are based on differences in the language of children attending schools in unilingual regions: see belgian linguistic case (no 2) (1968) 1 ehrr 252, para 32 clifts case provides another example closer to home. ..... article 17 provides that nothing in the convention may be interpreted as implying for any state, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the limitation of any of the rights and freedoms set forth in the convention to a greater extent than the convention itself provides for. ..... i agree with him entirely that the human rights act is for the benefit of ordinary people who lead ordinary lives: it is to protect them inter alia against arbitrary interceptions of their mail, email and telephone conversations, searches of their homes and persons, arrest, prolonged imprisonment without charge or trial, enforced separation from their children and families, trials in secret before military tribunals, inhuman and degrading treatment in hospital and care homes. ..... he said that he was a member of a particular social group, which labour politicians had denigrated not for what they did but because they were perceived, wrongly, to be toffs and tories. .....
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..... preambles of this convention read as follows: "considering that the charter of the united nations is based on the principles of the dignity and equality inherent in all human beings, and that all member states have pledged themselves to take joint and separate action, in co-operation with the organisation, for the achievement of one of the purposes of the united nations which is to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of ..... the international court of justice, "the law and procedure of the international court of justice: general principles and sources of law" (1950) 27 byil 1, 12-13: "the essence of the doctrine is that although a state may have a strict right to act in a particular way, it must not exercise this right in such a manner as to constitute an abuse of it; it must exercise its rights in good faith and with a sense of responsibility; it must have bona fide reasons for what it does ..... inter-governmental arrangements were made between certain states in 1922, 1924, 1926 and 1928, and in 1933 a convention relating to the international status of refugees was made at geneva under the auspices of the league ..... for writers on international law, however valuable their labours may be in elucidating and ascertaining the principles and rules of law, cannot make ..... not suggest someone who is planning to abandon her husband and five children and move to england. ..... obviously roma appearance, aged 61 at the time, living with her husband and children, but travelling alone. .....
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