The correct answers are: English courts must take its decisions into account and; It is the final court of appeal in human rights issues.

The European Court of Human Rights is now the final court of appeal in human rights issues, but only after the case has been through the English appeals court system and only if the applicant wishes to take it there.

This means that it operates in the same way as an English court of appeal, and so cannot take proceedings itself. The English courts must take its decisions into account, however, even those made before the Human Rights Act 1998 was passed. Finally, it has no connection with the European Court of Justice, which is a completely separate court dealing with the law of the European Union.