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"Nothing Strengthens Authority So Much As Silence"

~ Leonardo Da Vinci 

The Margin of Appreciation 

What is the Margin of Appreciation?

The margin of appreciation is a legal concept where the European Court of Human Rights respects that different countries may have different understandings on certain issues, with different legal and cultural traditions. The margin of appreciation means each country has scope to make decisions on how the rights apply on that matter in their country. The Court uses the margin of appreciation when there are a lot of different opinions about specific rights issues across Europe.The margin of appreciation therefore limits the binding nature of the European Convention of Human Rights by accepting that different societies across Europe will develop different legal understandings at different paces. 

Essentially, it is a space for diverging interpretations.  

This blog tries to be an embodiment of the same. 

 

 

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