absolute right
A right set out in the European Convention on Human Rights that cannot lawfully be violated, no matter how important the public interest in doing so might be. Absolute rights include freedom of thought, conscience, and religion and the prohibitions on torture, inhuman treatment or punishment, and degrading treatment or punishment. Compare qualified right.

• in vitro fertilization
• involuntary conduct
• involuntary manslaughter
• ipse dixit
• ipso jure
• Irish Backstop
• irrationality
• irrebuttable presumption
• irresistible impulse
• irretrievable breakdown
• irrevocable
• ISA
• Islamic finance
• isonomy
• issue
• issued capital
• issue estoppel
• istisna’a
• itemized pay statement
• IVF
• jactitation of marriage
• Jobseeker’s Agreement
• jobseeker’s allowance
• joinder of causes of action
• joinder of charges