Efficacia orizzontale della convenzione europea e previo esaurimento dei rimedi interni: in margine alla decisione di inammissibilità nel caso Lee c. Regno Unito

Studies on Drittwirkung deal with the horizontal application of the European Convention of Human Rights. The present contribution delves into this topic discussing a decision of inadmissibility issued on 7 December 2021 by the European Court of Human Rights in the so-called «gay cake case», Lee v. United Kingdom. It is argued that the Court implicitly considers the Convention to be applicable horizontally, thus allowing claimants in private disputes to successfully exhaust domestic remedies before bringing a complaint to Strasbourg.