European court of human rights: which countries get the most judgments?
The UK was found against for lack of effective investigation on five occasions, not to have offered a fair trial on three occasions, and to have failed its duty on prohibition of torture twice.
I wonder if those rulings have anything to do with the UK government’s recent attempts to limit the ECHR powers? What better way to avoid looking bad than curtail the abiliity of the court to rule against you? Of course you *could* try to correct some of the root causes behind people having to go to the ECHR, but that’d be too hard, or politically awkward.
