Social Security as a Human Right: The Protection afforded by the ECHR

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Introduction......Page 7
European Court of Human Rights case-law on social security......Page 10
Article 6§1: Right to a fair trial......Page 11
Protection of substantive rights in the social-security field......Page 24
Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (Protection of property)......Page 25
Article 14 (Prohibition of discrimination)......Page 32
Article 2 (The right to life)......Page 39
Article 3 (Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment)......Page 42
Article 8 (Right to respect for private and family life)......Page 46
Reference to the European Social Charter in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights......Page 48
States’ obligation to comply with ECHR judgments......Page 50
Substance of the obligation to execute judgments......Page 51
Freedom of choice for the respondent state and supervision by the Committee of Ministers......Page 53
Execution procedure......Page 54
Access to an independent and impartial tribunal......Page 57
Length of proceedings......Page 58
Failure to execute a judgment or administrative decision......Page 59
Discrimination on the ground of sex......Page 60
Discrimination on the ground of nationality......Page 61
Discrimination in relation to other categories of people......Page 62
Protection of property (Article 1 of Protocol No. 1)......Page 63
Conclusion......Page 65
Appendix: list of the principal cases......Page 67