- Diane Pretty
Diane Pretty (November 15, 1958 - May 11, 2002) was a British woman from Luton, Bedfordshire, who became the focus of a debate about assisted dying in Britain during the early part of the 21st Century. Diane Pretty was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, and when this disease became advanced such that she was unable to move or communicate easily, she wished to end her life, with assistance from her husband.
- David Pannick
David Pannick QC (born 7 March 1956) is a leading barrister in the United Kingdom. He practices mainly in the areas of public law and human rights. He has argued more than 75 cases in the House of Lords, more than 25 cases in the European Court of Justice, and more than 30 cases in the European Court of Human Rights.
- Lucius Caflisch
Lucius Caflisch (born August 31, 1936) is a Swiss international law specialist. Lucius Caflisch is professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He was also director of the institute between 1984 and 1990. In 1991, he became legal advisor for the Swiss Federal Departement of Foreign Affairs and represented Switzerland at several international conventions, for example on banning personnel mines and on maritime law, …
- Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey Ronald Robertson QC (born September 30 1946 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster. He holds dual Australian and British citizenship. Geoffrey Robertson is joint head of Doughty Street Chambers. He serves as a "Master of the Bench" at the Middle Temple, a recorder and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London.
- Ian Brownlie
Ian Brownlie, CBE, QC, FBA, is a British jurist, specialising in international law. He was called to the Bar in 1958 (Gray's Inn). During his academic career he taught at the University of Leeds, Nottingham University, and Wadham College, Oxford. He was a professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science between 1976 and 1980.
- Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating from Yale School of Architecture in 1962.
- Giorgio Malinverni
Giorgio Malinverni is a Swiss law professor. On 27 June 2006, he was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as the judge representing Switzerland on the European Court of Human Rights.
- Luigi Cascioli
Luigi Cascioli is an Italian atheist and author of the book "The Fable of Christ". When Cascioli was younger he trained to become a Roman Catholic priest, but he left his training to become a pronounced atheist and he asserted that Jesus never existed. He later expounded on this in his book, which claims that Jesus was a fictionalisation of the historical John of Gamala. In response to this book, in 2002, a local priest, Father Enrico Righi, …
- Danutė Jočienė
Danutė Jočienė is a Lithuanian lawyer. She is the second representative of Lithuania in the European Court of Human Rights to date and the youngest judge in the Court's history (at the time of her election in May 2004 she was 33 years old). Danutė Jočienė graduated from the Law Faculty of Vilnius University and worked as a lecturer in the Department of the International and European Union Law of the Faculty.
- Tudor Petrov-Popa
Tudor Petrov-Popa, like Andrei Ivanţoc, is a Moldovan-born Romanian politician, arrested in Tiraspol in June 1992 by the Transnistrian separatists. Petrov-Popa was a Soviet army veteran of the war in Afghanistan who was convicted together with four other men in the so called Ilaşcu Group for acts of terrorism including assassination by the separatist authorities of Transnistria.
- Karinna Moskalenko
Karinna Moskalenko in Baku, Azerbaijan is Russia’s leading human rights lawyer, defending, amongst others, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Garry Kasparov. She and her team at Moscow’s International Protection Centre have won 27 cases against the Russian government at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and have more than 100 applications pending.
- Vlad Cubreacov
Vlad Cubreacov is a Moldovan politician. In 1989 he graduated from the journalism faculty of the State University of Moldova. He worked as a scientific consultant at the Dimitrie Cantemir Literature Museum in Chişinău (1989-1991), then becoming head of the Department of Religious Affairs in the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs (1991-1994). Since 1994 he has been a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, …
- Christopher Greenwood
Christopher Greenwood CMG QC (b. 1955) is a barrister and professor of international law at the London School of Economics. He has regularly appeared as counsel before the English courts, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Greenwood studied law at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a BA (Law) (First Class Hons) in 1976, LLB (International Law) (First Class Hons) in 1977, and MA in 1981.
- Pearse Jordan
Pearse Jordan was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member/Volunteer killed whilst unarmed, by an RUC officer. In 2001, the European Court of Human Rights ordered the British Government to pay fines to the families of several IRA men, including Jordan's, after holding that the men's human rights were violated by flawed inquest procedures. Following this judgment, the British law regarding inquests was changed.
- Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev
Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev was a 25 year old Chechen man, who was forcibly dissappeared in February 2000 after being filmed in the company of Russian Army general ordering him taken away and shot. To this date, his body has not been found. In 2006 Yandiyev's mother sued Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for failing to adequately investigate the case.
- Euan Sutherland
Euan Sutherland is an activist who, with Chris Morris, successfully challenged the British Government in the European Court of Human Rights and secured an equal age of consent for gay men. When male homosexuality was decriminalised in Britain in 1967, the age of consent was set at 21. It was lowered to 18 in 1994, but Sutherland and Morris took their case to Europe to demand it be reduced further to 16, the same age as it is for heterosexuals.
- Anthony Anderson
Anthony Anderson is a British murderer. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 after being found guilty of murdering two men during burglaries. The trial judge recommended that Anderson should remain in prison for a minimum of 15 years, which would have kept him in prison until at least 2003. Anderson was later told by Home Secretary Michael Howard that he should serve a minimum of 20 years, which meant that he would not be paroled before 2008.
- Malcolm Shaw
Malcolm Shaw, QC (born 1947) is the Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law at the University of Leicester and teaches international law, human rights and equity and trusts. He is a practising barrister and jurist and is the author of a best selling book on International Law.
- Alison Halford
Alison Monica Halford (born 8 May 1940) is a former senior police officer who became a politician. She was Labour member of the National Assembly for Wales, representing the Delyn constituency, between 1999 and 2003. In 2006 she transferred allegiance to the Conservative Party and as of 2007 advises the Conservatives on home affairs. Halford was born in Norwich. She attended a Roman Catholic grammar school and served for three years in the Women's Royal Air Force, …
- Pranas Kūris
Pranas Kūris is a Lithuanian lawyer. He is the first representative of Lithuania in the European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights. Pranas Kūris has graduated the Law Faculty of Vilnius University in 1961 and has worked as a lecturer in the Department of the International and European Union Law of the Faculty. He worked in the field of International public law.
- Minos Kokkinakis
Minos Kokkinakis (25 January 1919 Sitia Crete - 28 January 1999 Sitia) was a Greek Jehovah's Witness who campaigned to overturn Greece's ban on proselytism, then an offence under Greek law. A shopkeeper by trade, Kokkinakis became a Witness in his twenties. In 1938 he was the first Witness in Greece to be arrested for violating the law against proselytism which had just been enacted under pressure from the Greek Orthodox Church by the government of dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
- Andrei Ivanţoc
Andrei Ivanţoc is a Moldovan politician. He was among the four leaders (the Ilie Ilaşcu group, comprising also Alexandru Leşco and Tudor Petrov Popa) of the Tiraspol branch of the pro-Romanian Christian-Democratic People's Party of Moldova who were accused of terrorism by the Russian-supported separatist regime of Transnistria. The four were pro-Romanian unionists opposing the separatist government in Tiraspol.
- Åke Green
Åke Green is a Pentecostal Christian pastor who was sentenced to one month in prison under Sweden's law against hate speech. On February 11, 2005 an appeals court, "Göta hovrätt", overturned the decision and acquitted Åke Green. On March 9, the Prosecutor-General appealed this decision to the Supreme Court, which on November 29 also acquitted him. In their opinion, while Åke Green had violated Swedish law as it currently stands, …
- Tatjana Ždanoka
Tatjana Arkadevna Ždanoka,, born May 8 1950 in Riga, is a Latvian politician and Member of the European Parliament for For Human Rights in United Latvia; part of the European Greens–European Free Alliance group. Ždanoka is the leader of the party Equal Rights since 2001 and as its representative/co-chairperson of ForHRUL. Her political stance is self-described as left centrism and protection of national and linguistic minorities (in Latvia, …
- Vasiliy Kononov
Vasiliy Kononov was a Soviet guerrilla fighter during World War II. On May 27, 1944 a group of guerrilla fighters executed 9 people in a village called Malye Baty. According to Latvian authorities, these were peaceful citizens. Kononov denies the claims and states that he shot Nazi allies. The European Court of Human Rights is holding hearings over an appeal filed by Kononov, who was convicted by Latvian authorities of war crimes.
- Jack Lyons
Isidore Jack Lyons is a retired British financier and philanthropist. He was charged in 1987 in the Guinness share-trading fraud of the 1980s, along with Ernest Saunders, Gerald Ronson, and Anthony Parnes, and the four men became known as "the Guinness Four". He was convicted but not sent to prison because he was allegedly suffering from ill health - bladder cancer, respiratory complaints, a poor heart and high blood pressure.
- Jay Lee
Jay Lee is a British National Party (BNP) member, who fought a legal battle after being expelled from a trade union. Lee, a driver for Virgin Trains, stood as a BNP candidate in the 2002 local elections in Bexley and was subsequently expelled from the train drivers' union ASLEF for BNP membership. In May 2003 an Employment Tribunal ruled that Lee was wrongly expelled from the union, …
- Ronald St. John MacDonald
Ronald St. John Macdonald, C.C. (20 August 1928 - 7 September 2006) was a Canadian legal academic and jurist. Born in Montreal, the son of R. St. John Macdonald and Elizabeth Smith, he served as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (Reserve) during World War II. Returning back to Canada he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 from St. Francis Xavier University, a Bachelor of Law degree in 1952 from Dalhousie Law School, …
- John Warwick Montgomery
John Warwick Montgomery was born October 18, 1931 in Warsaw, New York. He is Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities at the University of Bedfordshire (formerly the University of Luton) and since his retirement has continued to work as a barrister. He specialises in religious freedom cases in international Human Rights law. He is also noted for his major contributions as a writer, lecturer and public debater in the field of Christian apologetics.
- M25 Three
The M25 Three are Raphael Rowe, Michael Davis, and Randolph Johnson, who were incorrectly jailed for life, following a miscarriage of justice at the Old Bailey in March 1990 for a series of attacks and robberies around the M25, London's orbital motorway, on a night in December, 1988. Michael Davis has always protested his innocence. They were incorrectly found guilty of the murder of hairdresser Peter Hurburgh, …
- Pierre-Henri Teitgen
Pierre-Henri Teitgen was a French lawyer, professor and politician. Teitgen was born in Rennes, Brittany. Made prisoner of war in 1940, he played a major role in the French Resistance. Member of French Parliament from 1945 to 1958 for Ille-et-Vilaine, he presided the "Mouvement Républican Populaire" (Christian Democratic Party) from 1952 to 1956. He was Minister of Information in 1944 (one of the founders of the daily "Le Monde"), …
- Ruslan Alikhadzhyev
Ruslan Alikhadzhyev was a former parliamentary speaker of Chechnya who was forcibly disappeared by the Russian soldiers. He was kidnapped by the uniformed soldiers supported by vehicles and helicopters from his home in Shali when he seeked a negotiated end to the Second Chechen War in May 2000. Alikhadzhiyev, who had four small children, was blindfolded and taken to a nearby location, which is where he was last seen.
- Georghios Pikis
Judge Georghios Pikis is a Cypriot judge was elected for a six-year term from the Asian Group of States (Asian States) as an International Criminal Law judge, and is assigned to the Appeals Division. He was President of the Supreme Court of Cyprus from 1995 to 2004, and a Supreme Court Judge since 1981. Prior to this he had been President of the District Court from 1972 to 1981 and a District Judge from 1966 to 1972. He has competence in law and human rights, criminal law, …
- Giusep Nay
Giusep Nay (born August 9, 1942 in Trun, Grisons) was the president of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland for the years 2005 and 2006. He was elected to the Supreme Court in 1988 after being nominated by the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland. Nay resigned his office in 2006. Together with former MP Lili Nabholz and law professor Giorgio Malinverni, …
- Paul J. Mahoney
Paul J. Mahoney (b. 1946), British jurist, Judge and President of European Union Civil Service Tribunal. Law studies (Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1967; Master of Laws, University College London, 1969); lecturer, University College London (1967 to 1973); Barrister (London, 1972 to 1974); Administrator/Principal Administrator, European Court of Human Rights (1974 to 1990); Visiting Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, …
- Orhan Sefa Kilercioğlu
Orhan Sefa Kilercioğlu is the Turkish Secretary of State. Turkish author Talat Turhan was recently convicted of defamation of Kilercioğlu in his recent book Extraordinary War, Terror and Counter-terrorism. Turhan was ordered to pay damages to Kilercioğlu, but he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights. The Court stated that the truthfulness of a value judgment did not have to be proven, …
- Victor Miller
Victor Miller (born 1955) is a notorious British child killer currently serving a life sentence. Miller, a homosexual from Penn Fields, Wolverhampton, abducted 14 year old newspaper delivery boy Stuart Gough, an asthmatic, as he completed his round in Hagley, Worcestershire, in February 1988. He sexually assaulted Stuart before hitting him repeatedly with a rock and dumping his body in remote woodland in Hertfordshire.
- Arnold McNair 1st Baron McNair
Arnold Duncan McNair, 1st Baron McNair, CBE, KC, LLD, FBA (March 4, 1885 - May 22, 1975), was a British legal scholar, university teacher and judge. From 1959 to 1965 he served as the first President of the European Court of Human Rights. The eldest son of John McNair of Dulwich (but originally of Paisley, Scotland) and Jeannie Ballantyne, McNair was educated at Aldenham School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read law.
- Eduardo Garcia De Enterria Y Martinez-Carande
Eduardo Garcia de Enterria y Martinez-Carande (born 1923 in Ramales (Cantabria, Spain). He is a lawyer and member of the Spanish Council of State (1947). He is a Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Valladolid (1957) and the "Complutense University of Madrid" (1962). He is a numbered Academic at the Royal Spanish Academy ("Real Academia Española de la Lengua").
- Hanne Sofie Greve
Hanne Sofie Greve graduated cand. jur. in (1976) and later (1988) dr. juris at the University of Bergen. She is a former judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Before she was appointed to the position in the Hague she was a judge at Gulating Court of Appeal and was involved in a number of national and international projects where human rights were in focus.