European Court of Human Rights.

Just a little bit of information on the ECHR:

The court sits in Strasbourg and was formed against the backdrop of the Second World War. British jurists or lawyers contributed.

Our parliament passed the 1998 Human Rights Act giving British judges the ability to implement the ECHR in UK courts.

When cases reach Strasbourg, the panel of judges includes a British judge.

Andrew Parker and Paul Hedley-Saunders have taken a case all the way to the ECHR on the issue of entrapment by the press. This was when we acted for an actor who was caught in a News of the World fake sheikh "sting."

John Shannon (also known as John Alford) had supplied just over two grams of cocaine, worth about £200, and a small amount of cannabis resin worth about £40 on the same date to a News of the World journalist posing as an Arab sheikh in an elaborate stratagem designed to obtain evidence of drug offences against him.

We attempted to exclude all the prosecution evidence on the ground that it was agent provocateur evidence unfairly obtained contrary to section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 which deprived the appellant of a fair trial guaranteed by article 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

M23LAW believe in the ECHR as we feel that on balance it has helped protect the rights of all Britons.