Quark Fishing Limited v . United Kingdom

• Published in: International Law Reports
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2007
• Subjects: Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Islands; South Georgia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316152638.018; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0309067100010364

749 Human rights — Scope and application of human rights treaties — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, and First Protocol — Application to overseas territories of a State Party — Article 56 of the Convention and Article 4 of the First Protocol — Declaration by State Party extending the Convention and Protocol to overseas territory a prerequisite for their application there — South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands — United Kingdom making declaration extending the Convention but not the First Protocol — Effect that Protocol not applicable Treaties — Interpretation — Effectiveness — Limits to power of court — Court not permitted to use power of interpretation to remove provisions from Convention — European Convention on Human Rights