Critically asses how the European Convention on Human Rights protects citizens in the legal area of civil liberties in the United Kingdom

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was conceived to prevent a repetition of the enormous Human Rights violations of the Second World War period. The Convention protects the fundamental Human Rights in Articles 2-7, which have few, or narrow, exceptions, and the Higher Freedoms in Articles 8-12, which are subject to a broad range of express exceptions. The dynamic, broadly teleological approach of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to the interpretation of the Convention and has created a jurisprudence which has had an enormous impact, through specific cases and in an educative, symbolic and preventative sense, on the legal systems of the signatory nations; most recently in the UK.