The AIRE Centre

The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) is a specialist legal charity. We use the power of European law to protect your fundamental rights

Advice / Litigation/ Policy

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The AIRE Centre litigates before the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court Of Justice and has been involved in over 100 cases since the organisation was founded in 1993. Our policy has always been to offer our litigation expertise in whatever form it is needed, which may mean acting as representatives on the record, sharing our expertise on procedural and substantive law, or intervening as an expert third party in cases which we are not assisting in the representation.

The AIRE Centre works to ensure that all people enjoy their rights under European Law. We provide a unique service on the interrelationship between the two European legal orders and international Human Rights Law.

We receive annually from the UK alone around 1,500 requests for legal advice from EEA migrants or their advisors.

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Fjölnisdóttir and others v Iceland

The AIRE Centre has submitted a written intervention in the case of Fjölnisdóttir and others v Iceland. We call on the Court to ensure that the best interests of the child are accorded, at a minimum, the primacy that is set out in Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in any decision on legal parentage.
The 30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

The AIRE Centre is proud to be a part of a coalition of over 70 organisations and experts concerned with children’s rights and welfare that has published a series of 30 General Election pledges which would transform the lives of children and young people, and their parents and carers.
Landmark decision in J.D. and A v. The United Kingdom

The UK’s bedroom tax has been found to be unjustifiably discriminatory in the case of a victim of domestic violence who had been placed in social housing under the “Sanctuary Scheme”. The European Court of Human Rights made the ruling on 24th October 2019 in a landmark decision. The AIRE Centre intervened in the case.
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