<Ul> <Li> Golder v. United Kingdom (1975) 1 EHRR 524--A prisoner requested a lawyer because he said he wanted to sue a guard for defamation . Access was denied . This violated the right to a fair trial (Article 6 ECHR) and client confidentiality . </Li> <Li> Silver v. United Kingdom (1981) 3 EHRR 475--Censorship of a prisoner's correspondence regarding conditions in prison breached Article 8 . </Li> <Li> R v Brown (1994) 1 AC 212--Article 8 was deemed not to "(invalidate) a law which forbids violence which is intentionally harmful to body and mind" (specifically, assault occasioning actual bodily harm as part of consensual sadomasochistic sex acts) by the UK House of Lords . </Li> <Li> Rotaru v. Romania (2000) ECHR 192--Public information that is systematically collected and stored in files held by a state or its agents falls within the scope of private life . </Li> <Li> Pretty v. United Kingdom (2002) Article 8 extends to protect the right to die . Like with articles 9, 10 and 11, it can be interfered with provided there's valid justification, as there was in Pretty . </Li> <Li> Mosley v News Group Newspapers (2008) EWHC 1777 (QB)--Per Eady J, equitable breach of confidence is extended to protect Art . 8 rights . </Li> <Li> S and Marper v United Kingdom (2008) ECHR 1581--Retention of DNA information in respect of persons arrested but not convicted of an offence was held to breach Article 8 . </Li> <Li> A, B and C v Ireland (2010) ECHR 2032--Article 8 does not confer a "right to abortion", but the Republic of Ireland breached it by making it difficult for a woman to establish whether she qualifies for a legal abortion . </Li> <Li> Gillan and Quinton v United Kingdom (2010) ECHR 28--Stop and search powers granted to police under ss. 44--47 of the Terrorism Act 2000 were neither sufficiently circumscribed nor subject to adequate legal safeguards against abuse . As such, the Court found the powers not to be "in accordance with the law", in violation of Article 8 . </Li> <Li> Birmingham City Council v Clue (2010) EWCA Civ 460 29 / 4 / 2010--A challenge to the decision to refuse to provide Ms Clue and her family with essential support pending the UK Border Agency's determination of her application for indefinite leave to remain in the UK . In a ground - breaking decision of the Court of Appeal, the judgment extends the scope of community care provision for families subject to immigration control who seek to remain in the UK on Article 8 ECHR grounds . </Li> <Li> Plantagenet Alliance v Ministry of Justice and others (2014) EWHC 1662--Article 8 did not entitle modern - day descendants of the House of Plantagenet to be consulted on the place of re-interment of Richard III . </Li> <Li> Zakharov v. Russia (2015)--The Court examined Russian surveillance legislation in abstracto, finding unanimously that the existence of inadequate legislation and its application in practice themselves amounted to a violation of the applicant's rights under Article 8 . </Li> <Li> The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission's Application (2015) NIQB 96--Northern Ireland's criminalization of abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality, rape or incest declared incompatible with Article 8 </Li> </Ul> <Li> Golder v. United Kingdom (1975) 1 EHRR 524--A prisoner requested a lawyer because he said he wanted to sue a guard for defamation . Access was denied . This violated the right to a fair trial (Article 6 ECHR) and client confidentiality . </Li> <Li> Silver v. United Kingdom (1981) 3 EHRR 475--Censorship of a prisoner's correspondence regarding conditions in prison breached Article 8 . </Li> <Li> R v Brown (1994) 1 AC 212--Article 8 was deemed not to "(invalidate) a law which forbids violence which is intentionally harmful to body and mind" (specifically, assault occasioning actual bodily harm as part of consensual sadomasochistic sex acts) by the UK House of Lords . </Li>

Article 8 of the convention on human rights