HUMAN RIGHTS COURT
September 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE BRITISH government has been censured by the European Court of Human Rights for failing to ensure the release of confidential social services information to a physical abuse victim, describing how he was ill-treated by his father as a child. He had requested them during counselling, to come terms with his abuse.Judges ruled that by restricting the documents made available on grounds of confidentiality, the victim - an unnamed Leicester man, aged 42, given the initials MG - had his rights violated, as defined in the European Charter on Human ...
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