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Convention rights

noun

B1CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

The rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights and given effect in domestic law by the Human Rights Act.

The applicant argued that the search violated her Convention rights to privacy.

Topic: Public law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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