Saara Idelbi succeeds in strike out application on prison conditions during COVID-19

Saara Idelbi was instructed by the Ministry of Justice in a case concerning whether the restrictions in a Welsh prison during COVID-19 amounted to a violation of Article 3 and/or 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, or whether the restrictions amounted to discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.

The claim was the lead claimant case on COVID-19 restrictions in prisons between March 2020 and January 2021. Saara successfully argued that, following the European Court of Human Right’s decision in Fenech v. Malta (Application no. 19090/20, 1 June 2022), there were no reasonable grounds for bringing the claims under the Convention, and that the claims for discrimination were non-specific.

Saara has substantial expertise in civil claims made under the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2010. She co-authored the ‘A Practical Guide to Non-Pecuniary Damages in Human Rights Act Claims’ available here.

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Saara Idelbi

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Civil Liberties and Human Rights

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