CONNORS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM JUDGMENT 1 In the case of Connors v. the United Kingdom, The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of Mr C.L. ROZAKIS, President, Mr P. LORENZEN, Sir Nicolas BRATZA, Mr G. BONELLO, Mrs F. TULKENS, Mrs S. BOTOUCHAROVA, Mrs E. STEINER, judges, and Mr S. NIELSEN, Section Registrar, Having deliberated in private on 22 January and 6 May 2004, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the lastmentioned date: PROCEDURE 1. The case originated in an application (no. 66746/01) against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a United Kingdom national, Mr James Connors (“the applicant”), on 29 January 2001. 2. The applicant was represented by Mr K. Lomax, a lawyer practising in Leeds. The United Kingdom Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr D. Walton of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. 3. The applicant complained that he and his family had been evicted from a local authority gypsy caravan site, invoking Articles 6, 8, 13 and 14 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1. 4. The application was allocated to the First Section of the Court (Rule 52 § 1 of the Rules of Court). 5. By a decision of 14 November 2002, the Court declared the application admissible. 6. The applicant and the Government each filed observations on the merits (Rule 59 § 1). 7. A hearing took place in public in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg, on 22 January 2004 (Rule 59 § 3).