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ECHR rules against Russia in child disability case

24/03/16

On 22 March 2016 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of Blokhin v Russia, a judgment that found that a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and neurogenic bladder causing enuresis (a disorder involving urinary incontinence) was unlawfully detained and abused in Russia’s criminal justice system in breach of Articles 3, 5 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The judgment is here.

The Mental Disability Advocacy Centre press release can be found here.

Paul Bowen QC was instructed as leading counsel in an intervention by the Mental Disability Advocacy Centre to which significant reference was made by the Grand Chamber in its judgment.