Margin of appreciation
Margin of appreciation
Real World
In Handyside v UK (1976), the ECtHR allowed the UK to ban 'The Little Red Schoolbook' as obscene, granting the UK a wide margin of appreciation on public morality because no uniform European standard existed.
Exam Focus
State when the margin is wider (morality, national security) and narrower (intimate personal choices) to access higher-band evaluation marks.
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