DECISION FOR REQUEST FOR AN ADVISORY OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF SLOVAKIA of 01.03.2021 (no. P16-2020-001) – GRAND CHAMBER SUMMARY The European Court of Human Rights has decided not to accept a request (no. P16-2020-001) for an advisory opinion submitted by the Supreme Court of Slovakia on 19 November 2020. The decision is final. […]
JUDGMENT Hassine v. Romania 09.03.2021 (app. no. 36328/13) see here SUMMARY Deportation of an alien. Access to critical documents. Procedural guarantees. The case concerned administrative proceedings following which the applicant was expelled from Romania on national-security grounds. The Court held that substantial limitations had been imposed on the applicant’s procedural rights without the need for […]
JUDGMENT Keskin v. The Netherlands 19.01.2021 (app.no. 2205/16) see here SUMMARY Defendant’s right to be examined by prosecution and defense witnesses. Fair trial, equality of arms. Compensatory factors and their criteria. According to the Court’s case-law, all evidence against it must be presented in the presence of the accused at a public hearing for the […]
JUDGMENT Feilazoo v. Malta 11.03.2021 (app. no. 6865/19) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the conditions of the applicant’s immigration detention and its lawfulness. It also concerned complaints in relation to the proceedings before this Court, mainly related to interference with correspondence and domestic legal-aid representation. The Court took issue with many aspects of the […]
JUDGMENT Dimitriou v. Greece 11.03.2021 (app. no. 62639/12) see here SUMMARY Greek courts award damages of 15,000 euros to a newspaper publisher for an impugned article against a former mayor. Violation of freedom of expression and adjudication by the ECtHR of 27,000 euros! The plaintiff, publisher of a local newspaper in Heraklion, Crete and shareholder […]
JUDGMENT Veronica Ciobanu v. Democracy of Moldova 04.02.2021 (app. no. 69829/11) see here SUMMARY Protection of minors. Drowning of a minor living in a state camp. Ineffective research. Procedural and substantive part of the right to life. The applicant’s minor son drowned while on holiday at a public children’s camp in Romania. The Moldovan domestic […]
JUDGMENT Bilgen v. Turkey 09.03.2021 (app. no 1571/07) see here SUMMARY Transfer of a judge. Adverse transfers are important for a judge’s career. Absence of judicial control regarding the transfer. Access to court. A senior judge was transferred, without his consent, from the Ankara Regional Administrative Court to another court in a lower judicial district. […]
JUDGMENT Kolesnikova v. Russia 02.03.2020 (app. no. 45202/14) see here SUMMARY Court impartiality and a fair trial. Lack of impartiality in a case against a former judge of the courts of Russia. The applicant, a former judge, applied for disqualification against the court hearing her appeal because the presiding judge was the one who denounced […]
JUDGMENT Fariz Ahmadov v. Azerbaijan 14.01.2021 (app. no. 40321/07) see here SUMMARY Resignation of a suspect in the pre-trial from the right of representation by a lawyer. Representation by a lawyer and a fair trial. The applicant was sentenced by an irrevocable decision for drug possession. During the pre-trial period he voluntarily resigned from the […]
JUDGMENT Stichting Landgoed Steenbergen and others v. the Netherlands 16.02.21 (app. no.19732/17) see here SUMMARY Electronic notification of draft decision and decision for expansion of services on a motocross track. Access to court. The applicants alleged that their access to a court had been violated, as they had not been properly informed of the decision […]
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