‘Case Law, Strasbourg: Hurbain v Belgium, Order to anonymise newspaper archive did not violate Article 10′

“In the case of Hurbain v Belgium [2021] ECHR 544 (in French only), the European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), held that an order to anonymise an article in a newspaper’s electronic archive (which referred to a person’s involvement in a fatal road traffic accident for which they were subsequently convicted) did not breach the applicant publisher’s right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights …” (more)

[Hugh Tomlinson QC and Aidan Wills, Inforrm’s Blog, 7 July]

First posted 2021-07-07 09:00:56

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