JUDGMENT Convertito and others v. Romania 03.03.2020 (no. 30547/14) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the annulment, owing to administrative flaws, of State degrees in dentistry obtained by the applicants in Romania. The Court noted that the decisions to enrol the students in the first year of higher education had been issued and signed by […]
JUDGMENT Y.I. v. Russia 25.2.2020 (no. 68868/14) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s complaint about being deprived of her parental authority in respect of her three children because she was a drug addict. Drug addiction is a ground for removing parental authority under the Russian Family Code, and entailed her losing all contact […]
JUDGMENT Breyer v. Germany 30.01.2020 (no. 50001/12) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the storage of pre-paid SIM card users’ data by telecommunications companies. The Court found in particular that collecting the applicants’ names and addresses as users of pre-paid SIM cards had amounted to a limited interference with their rights. The law in question […]
JUDGMENT Gaughran v. United Kingdom 13.02.2020 (no. 45245/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a complaint about the indefinite retention of personal data (DNA profile, fingerprints and photograph) of a man who had a spent conviction for driving with excess alcohol in Northern Ireland. The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: […]
JUDGMENT Kruglov and others v. Russia 30.01.2020 (no. 11264/04 and 15 applications) see here SUMMARY Investigations in law firms and homes. Protection of professional secrecy. Necessary institutional guarantees. The seizure of computers and hard drives violates the right to property. The applicants are lawyers. In order to gather evidence for a criminal investigation, a search […]
JUDGMENT Khodorkovskiy and Lebedev v. Russia 14.01.2020 (n. 2) (appl. no. 51111/07 and 42757/07) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the second trial of former Yukos executives Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev. The European Court of Human Rights held unanimously that there had been breaches of the applicants’ right to a fair trial under Article […]
JUDGMENT Χ. and others v. Russia 14.01.2020 (no. 78042/16 και 66158/14) see here SMMARY The first applicant, a victim of rape, complained of malfunctioning of the justice system, as the latter, in the process of investigating her case, disclosed her personal information in letters she sent to medical centers. The applicant applied for damages, but […]
JUDGMENT Ciupercescu v. Romania 07.01.2019 (no. 41995/14) see here SUMMARY Conditions of detention in prison and degrading treatment. The applicant has been sentenced to 11 years in prison in various Romanian prisons. He appealed before the domestic courts for detention conditions regarding overcrowding, cell size, humidity, delayed medical care, a ban on online chat with […]
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Ineffective criminal protection of homosexuals against hate speech on facebook violates their right to privacy
JUDGMENT Beizaras and Levickas v. Lithuania 14.01.2020 (no. 41288/15) see here SUMMARY The case raised questions about the State’s responsibility to protect individuals from homophobic hate speech. The applicants are two young men who are in a relationship. One of the applicants posted a photograph of them kissing on his Facebook page, which led to […]