LawByLak — Topic 43: ECHR (OCR H418, Paper 3)

Short line The biggest topic in the block, and the one that has actually been examined most. Fourteen real questions in five sittings.

Body

Articles 5, 6, 8, 10 and 11: liberty, a fair trial, private life, expression and assembly. Twelve taught hours, the largest allocation in the human rights block, and the topic that has taken more real questions than any other in it.

Fourteen of the twenty-five Section B questions in the window belong here: eleven scenarios and three essays. This module gives you the record by Article, so you can see that Articles 5 and 10 have never carried the essay while Articles 6, 8 and 11 have.

June 2025's official material is folded in throughout, including the method layer from OCR's own Assessment for Learning panel and the published exemplar that shows the wrong approach.

What's inside

• 89 authorities, 77 of them cases, organised by Article rather than alphabetically
• A 96-card deck: 67 authorities and 29 key terms
• 8 real past-paper questions modelled at three bands, with plans and band commentary
• Answers that measure what they claim: Level 2 at 176 to 218 words, Level 3 at 409 to 493, Level 4 at 1,152 to 1,374, every one matching the figure printed beside it
• 13 evaluation seams, 9 examiner quotations with page references, 12 OCR source errors
• 30 glossary terms, 6 cheat sheets, a 32-row tracker
• Around 61,000 words

Straight about one thing

Students say human rights is fine "except for the external law". OCR's own report says the same from the other side. This module covers the Article slots, Q3 and Q6. Two of your four questions, Q4 and Q7, are on domestic law taught in Topics 44 and 45. We say so on the front page rather than letting you find out in June.

OCR H418, Paper 3, Section B. Twelve taught hours.