 On 7 October 2011, he was replaced by Sean Van Raepenbusch.On 27 June 2012, he was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to replace Sir Nicolas Bratza as the UK's judge on the European Court of Human Rights, which role he took up on 1 November 2012.Mahoney was replaced by Tim Eicke as the United Kingdom's judge on 12 September 2016.