A campaign group is launching a legal challenge in the European Court of Human Rights to extend the rights of gay couples to allow full marriage.

Eight British couples will take their case to overturn the bans on same-sex marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships to the European Court of Human Rights next week.

Campaigners for equal rights for homosexuals will launch an attempt to overturn England's "discriminatory" marriage laws at the European Court of Human Rights today.

Campaigners for equal rights for homosexuals will launch an attempt to overturn England's "discriminatory" marriage laws at the European Court of Human Rights today.

You don't normally have to look far to find a European court willing to weaken British anti-terrorism legislation. The European Court of Human Rights has been doing a pretty handy job for a while now, and the European Court of...

The Coalition will give homosexual couples the same legal rights to marriage as heterosexuals, a senior Liberal Democrat has said.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the DNA of two men who were not convicted of a crime should be removed from the police DNA database. A welcome decision in my view. But why can't people get it into their thick heads that the ECHR is not a European Union court? Every time it makes a ruling, people start banging on about the EU. The European Court of Human Rights was set up in 1959 ...

The European Court of Human Rights should receive more funding despite attempts to limit the number of cases it hears, a European body signalled yesterday.

Innocents’ DNA must be destroyed More than 1.6 million DNA and fingerprint samples of innocent people on police databases must be destroyed after a court ruled yesterday that keeping them breaches human rights. It’s unusual that I have to praise a European institution but a landmark judgement by the European Court of Human Rights is a big

Earlier this week, there was a European Court of Human Rights ruling that is worth dwelling on. To summarise: the Court held that the UK's human rights obligations apply to its acts in Iraq, and that the UK had violated the European Convention on Human Rights in its failure to adequately investigate the killing of five Iraqi civilians by its forces there. The judgment overturns a House of Lor...