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 Ali Riza and others v. Turkey 28.01.2020 (no. 30226/10, 17880/11, 17887/11, 17891/11 and 5506/16) see here SUMMARY Football disputes and violation of Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair hearing) of the European Convention on Human Rights on account of the lack of independence and impartiality of the body, the Arbitration Committee of […]
JUDGMENT Lazarević v. Bosnia and Herzegovina 14.01.2020 (no. 29422/17) see here SUMMARY Lawsuit for employee benefits. An arbitrary court ruling dismissed the lawsuit despite the legislative provision and earlier Supreme Court case law. Infringement of the fair trial principal. The applicant worked for a public railway company but was dismissed in 2012. He brought proceedings […]
JUDGMENT Razvozzhayev v. Russia and Ukraine and Udaltsov v. Russia 19.11.2019 (no. 75734/12, 2695/15, 55325/15) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the conviction of two men for organising “mass disorder” for their part in May 2012 opposition protests and resultant disturbances in central Moscow, an incident which has been at the centre of several earlier […]
JUDGMENT Papageorgiou and others v. Greece 31.10.2019 (no. 4762/18 and 6140/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned compulsory religious education in Greek schools. The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education) to the European Convention on Human Rights, interpreted […]
JUDGMENT Volchkova and Mironov v. Russia 15.10.2019 (no. 45668/05 and 2292/06) see here SUMMARY Forced expropriation and non-payment of adequate compensation for the expropriated property. Violation of property right. The applicants are co-owners of a property on which their residence is built. By a municipal decision, their property had to be expropriated for the construction […]
JUDGMENT Gauci and others v. Malta 08.10.2019 (no. 57752/16) see here SUMMARY Expropriation, public interest and unpaid compensation. The applicants were deprived of the use of their land because of the forced expropriation. Their land was privatized but for the use of the public interest. Although they were recognized as beneficiaries of compensation by the […]
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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 […]