JUDGMENT Aydın Sefa Akay v. Turkey 23.04.2024 (app. no. 59/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a UN judge’s arrest and pre-trial detention, as well as the search of his house and person, in the aftermath of the 2016 attempted military coup in Türkiye, in spite of his diplomatic immunity. He was working remotely from […]
JUDGMENT Sacharuk v. Lithuania 23.04.2024 (app. no. 39300/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned Mr Sacharuk’s conviction in 2017 of abuse of office and of unlawful use of an official document because he had used another parliamentarian’s identity card to vote in parliament on his behalf. The Court found in particular that the Supreme Court […]
JUDGMENT Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska v. Poland 21.03.2024 (app. no. 10103/20) see here SUMMARY Attempts by a non-governmental organisation to gain access to the meeting diaries of two judges of the Constitutional Court and the court’s visitors’ diary. The request for information was made in the context of doubts about whether the two judges had […]
JUDGMENT Kartal v. Turkey 26.03.2024 (app. no. 54699/14) see here SUMMARY The applicant is a judge and has served as a member of the Judicial and Prosecutorial Review Board. The case concerned the termination of his term of office on the Board of Review under amendments to the legislation of the defendant State. He filled […]
JUDGMENT Škoberne v. Slovenia 15.02.2024 (app. no. 19920/20) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the proceedings against a former judge and his conviction in 2013 for accepting bribes. His conviction had been based on statements by his two co-defendants who had admitted to being intermediaries and on traffic and location data obtained under the data-retention […]
JUDGMENT Danileţ v. Romania 20.02.2024 (app. no. 16915/21) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a disciplinary sanction imposed on a judge by the National Judicial and Legal Service Commission for posting two messages on his Facebook account. The Court found that the domestic courts had failed to give due consideration to several important factors, in […]
JUDGMENT Ugulava v. Georgia (no. 2) 01.02.2024 (app. no. 22431/20) see here SUMMARY In December 2013, the applicant, a politician, who at the time was acting as Mayor of Tbilisi, was charged with aggravated embezzlement. In January 2019, two prosecutors of the General Prosecutor’s Office appealed against the appellate decision to the Supreme Court. The […]
JUDGMENT Lech Wałęsa v. Poland 23.11.2023 (app. no. 50849/21) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a civil suit that Mr Wałęsa had taken against a former friend and associate, Krzysztof Wyszkowski, who had accused him publicly of collaboration with the secret services under the communist regime. Although he had won the case, the final judgment […]
JUDGMENT Syndicat National des Journalistes and others v. France 14.12.2023 (app. no. 41236/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an alleged violation of the right to a fair hearing by an impartial court, as a result of the involvement of three Court of Cassation judges – who, in the applicants’ submission, had ties with the […]
JUDGMENT Tadić v. Croatia 28.11.2023 (app. no. 25551/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned criminal proceedings in which Mr Tadić had been found guilty of conspiring – through payments of money – to influence the Supreme Court to give a decision favourable to a well-known politician who was being tried for a war crime. The […]
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