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Norris v. Ireland

1988 European Court of Human Rights case

Summary

1988 European Court of Human Rights case

Field	Value
court	ECtHR
SubmitYear	1987
DecideDate	26 October
DecideYear	1988
FullName	David Norris v. Ireland
CaseNumber	6/1987/129/180
Nationality	Irish
JudgePresident	R. Ryssdal
Judge1	J. Cremona
Judge2	Thór Vilhjálmsson (jurist)
Judge3	F. Gölcüklü
Judge4	F. Matscher
Judge5	L.-E. Pettiti
Judge6	Brian Walsh (judge)
Judge7	Vincent Evans
Judge8	C. Russo
Judge9	R. Bernhardt
Judge10	A. Spielmann
Judge11	Jan de Meyer
Judge12	J.A. Carrillo Salcedo
Judge13	N. Valticos

Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885
Offences against the Person Act 1861
Dudgeon v United Kingdom

Norris v. Ireland was a case decided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 1988, in which David Norris successfully charged that Ireland's criminalisation of certain homosexual acts between consenting adult men was in breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to respect for private and family life).

Original case

Main article: Norris v. Attorney General

The original case in the Irish courts was Norris v. Attorney General, introduced in 1977 and decided by the Supreme Court of Ireland in 1983. Norris's Senior Counsel was fellow member of the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, Mary Robinson, who in 1990 would become the first female President of Ireland. The Irish courts ruled that Norris's right to privacy was not violated by the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (criminalising "buggery") and the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 (criminalising "gross indecency").

Case before the ECtHR

Norris appealed the Irish court's decision to the ECtHR in 1983. The Court passed judgment in 1988, deciding in Norris's favour on grounds similar to those of its 1981 decision in Dudgeon v United Kingdom.

The laws impugned by the judgment were eventually repealed by the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, 1993.

References

Notes

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References

(23 June 1993). "Private Members' Business. - Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill, 1993: Second Stage.". Oireachtas.
[http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1993/en/act/pub/0020/ Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, 1993] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-03-29 [[Irish Statute Book]])

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