<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>

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