Kavanagh v. Ireland

Comment:

Five Committee members - Louis Henkin, Rajsoomer Lallah, Cecilia Medina Quiroga, Ahmed Tawfik Khalil and Patrick Vella - submitted an individual opinion

Substantive issues:

• accused persons / convicted persons
• discrimination on other grounds
• effective remedy
• equality before the courts and tribunals
• equality before the law
• fair trial
• inderogable rights
• objective and reasonable justification
• presumption of innocence

Substantive articles:

• 2 (3) (a)
• 4 (1)
• 14 (1)
• 14 (2)
• 26

Procedural issues:

• exhaustion of domestic remedies

Procedural articles:

• 5 (2) (b)