Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms covers the scope of clearly defined rights, i.e. the right to private life, the right to family life, the right to home and the right to correspondence. In the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights a variety of facts and law are covered under the Article 8 of the Convention. The main purpose of the paper is to present the most common facts and law in which a complaint to the Court in Strasbourg was brought under Article 8 of the Convention. The specific objectives are: first, to show that the terms used
in the content of Article 8 of the Convention are autonomous concepts that are defined in the course
of the application of Article 8 of the Convention by the ECHR and are subjected to constant change;
Second, to show that Article 8 of the Convention is applied not only to vertical relations (individual-state), but also to the horizontal relations (individual-individual); third, to show that many of the rulings are examples of the practical application of the long-standing principle of international law of subsidiarity; fourth, to show that the standard of protection arising from the Article 8 of the ECHR consists of the proper shaping of the domestic public law and the Convention in both the material procedural aspects.