Legal summary

June 2023

S.O. v. the United Kingdom (Communicated case) - 12799/21

Article 8

Article 8-1

Respect for private life

Obligation under domestic law to disclose childhood criminal conviction in application for management position in National Health Service: communicated

The applicant was convicted in 1990, aged fourteen, of arson after pleading guilty. She received a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay fifty pounds sterling in damages and ten pounds sterling in costs. She has no other convictions.

The applicant now works for the National Health Service. She would like to apply for a management position but under domestic legislation would be obliged to disclose her conviction for arson. She complains that the requirement to disclose her childhood conviction breaches her Article 8 rights.

Communicated under Article 8.

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