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of the vulnerability thesis should not be overstated, as the court’s willingness to protect victims can be linked to other considerations such as the severity of violations which were covered or the combined effect of numerous failures by the authorities. Moreover, the ECtHR jurisprudence also shows that the extreme vulnerability doctrine is not developed in a blanket manner. The two lines of cases analysed show that differences exist between various categories of applicants. While in the fragile health cases the ECtHR adopts an approach, which balances the extreme vulnerability of the victims with other factors, in cases concerning migrant children their extreme vulnerability trumps any other considerations. It will be interesting to see whether the ECtHR will adopt a more uniform approach to vulnerability in the future. In the meantime, it can be concluded that vulnerability is important for ECtHR’s jurisprudence concerning migrants, but its weight must not be overstated as it is merely one of many elements which influenced the decision-making in the cases which were analysed.