The risk of future ill health due to exposure to nuclear emissions was too tenuous to engage "civil rights" for the purposes of Article 6 of the Convention
The applicant's inability to sue the local authority for permitting the pollution of his premises did not breach his right of access to court under Article 6
A claim by a local resident arising out of air and noise pollution caused by a nearby steelworks succeeded. Russia was in breach of its duty to take positive measures in respect of the air pollution under Article 8(1) of the Convention, and could not justify its actions under Article 8(2).
A threat to health and property posed by the granting of authorisation for waste incineration was not of a substantial kind and therefore did not engage Article 8
Non-proprietors may claim under Article 8 in respect of pollution or other invasive activities of neighbouring landowners in a way that they cannot pursue an action in Rylands v Fletcher or nuisance
The failure of the local authorities to prevent a methane explosion near a shanty town breached the residents' rights under Articles 2 and 1 Protocol 1
Laws compelling landowners to connect to the public sewerage system did not constitute a disproportionate infringement with their property rights under Article 1 Protocol 1.
