Evans v. the United Kingdom Case and the Principles of Justice and Proportionality

Abstract

The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms from 1950 in art.8 explicitly states the right to privacy of personal and family life of each person. The intervention of the state authorities in exercising that right shall not be admitted except in cases stipulated in the law and in those necessary for a democratic society in the interest of national and public security or of the economic prosperity of the country, to prevent riots or crimes, to protect health and morality or the rights and freedoms of the others.