JUDGMENT Hoppen and trade union of AB Amber Grid employees v. Lithuania (app. no. 976/20) SUMMARY The first applicant worked for the company ABAmberGrid and was a member of the trade union of that company and the second applicant. Having obtained the consent of the Labor Inspectorate (SLI), the company dismissed the first applicant “at […]
JUDGMENT Semenya v. Switzerland 11.07.2023 (app. no. 10934/21) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an international-level athlete, specialising in middle-distance races, who complained about certain regulations of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF – now called World Athletics) requiring her to take hormone treatment to decrease her natural testosterone level in order to be […]
JUDGMENT B.F. and others v. Switzerland 04/07/2023 (app. no. 13258/18, 15500/18, 57303/18 and 9078/20) see here SUMMARY The applicants entered Switzerland at different points in time between 2008 and 2012 and were recognised as refugees within the meaning of the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. They were granted provisional admission […]
JUDGMENT Nurcan Bayraktar v. Turkey 27.06.2023 (app. no. 27094/2020) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the legal obligation for divorced women to observe a 300-day waiting period before remarrying – to someone other than their ex-husband – unless they could prove they were not pregnant by undergoing a medical examination. The Court held that imposing […]
JUDGMENT Χ and others v. Ireland 22.06.2023 (app. no. 23851/20 and 24360/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerns the rule that the payment of child benefit in Ireland can only be made to claimants who are lawfully resident in the State. The Court found that the immigration status of the applicants (X and Y) at […]
JUDGMENT Nepomnyashchiy and others v. Russia 30/05/2023 (app. no. 39954/09 and 3465/17) SUMMARY Homophobic statements by politicians against the LGBTI community. Right to privacy and prohibited discrimination. The applicants are gay activists, members of the LGBTI community of Russia. Two famous politicians publicly made racist statements against LGBTI people in the press, specifically “Tolerance? Damn […]
JUDGMENT A.E. v. Bulgaria 23.05.2023 (app. no. 53891/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned complaints brought to prosecutors in Bulgaria that Ms A.E., then aged just 15, had been a victim of domestic abuse, including being beaten, kicked and strangled, by the 23-yearold man with whom she was living. The Court found in particular that […]
JUGMENT Csata v. Romania 18.04.2023 (app. no. 65128/19) see here SUMMARY Denial of legal recognition of the applicant’s gender identity. The applicant was born a man, but from a young age identified herself as a woman. On 10 October 2016 she submitted an application to the Regional Court of Timisoara requesting to be allowed to […]
JUDGMENT Szolcsán v. Hungary 30.03.2023 ( app. no. 24408/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s education in a primary school that was almost exclusively attended by Roma children. Hisrequest to be transferred to anotherschool in a neighbouring town wasrejected because he did not live in the school’s catchment area. However, he claims that […]
JUDGMENT CUPIAŁ v. POLAND 09.03.2023 (app. no. 67414/11) see here SUMMARY The applicant was accused of the psychological abuse of his children by means of subjecting them to allegedly excessive religious practices and he was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. Particularly, he used to wake the children up at night and force them to pray, […]
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