The category of public safety and the category of legal security of the individual. An attempt to analyze based on selected judgments of the European Court of Human Rights Cover Image

Kategoria bezpieczeństwa publicznego a bezpieczeństwo prawne jednostki. Próba analizy w oparciu o wybrane orzeczenia Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka
The category of public safety and the category of legal security of the individual. An attempt to analyze based on selected judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

Author(s): Witold Sobczak
Subject(s): International Law, Sociology, Sociology of Law
Published by: Akademia im. Jakuba z Paradyża
Keywords: security; public safety; legal mechanisms of the security of an individual; human rights; the European Court of Human Rights; a democratic state of law; constitutional principles

Summary/Abstract: This text concerns the relations hip between the category of “public safety” and the category of “legal security of the individual”. This issue was analyzed on the background of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The main problem is the attempt to answer the question about the subject scope of both categories of security –public and individual – the mutual relations between them and the legal framework for the creation and functioning of protection mechanisms in a democratic state.

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 51-75
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish