JUDGMENT Halet v. Lyxembourg 11.5.2021 (app. no. 21884/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned Mr Halet’s criminal conviction in the “Luxleaks” case for disclosing tax documents concerning some of his employer’s clients. The Luxembourg courts did not accept whistleblowing as justification for Mr Halet’s actions, taking the view that the disclosure of the documents, which […]
JUDGMENT Akdeniz and others v. Turkey 04.05.2021 (app. no. 41139/15 and 41146/15) see here SUMMARY The concerned an interim injunction ordered by the domestic courts banning the dissemination and publication (on any medium) of information on a parliamentary inquiry into allegations of corruption against four former ministers, which had been instigated following an operation conducted […]
JUDGMENT Meng v. Germany 16.02.2021 (app. no. 1128/17) see here SUMMARY Impartial court. Criteria. Fair trial. Participation of a judge in a panel that convicted the applicant, when he himself had convicted the accomplice of the same crime in a previous trial and had judged her own participation. The applicant was convicted of the joint […]
JUDGMENT F.O. v. Croatia 22.04.2021 (app. no. 29555/13) see here SUMMARY Harassment of a student in a public school by a teacher and the right to protection by the state. Respect for privacy. A high school student was verbally harassed by a math teacher during class in front of all his classmates. He was described […]
JUDGMENT Mont Blanc Trading Ltd and Antares Titanium Trading Ltd v. Ukraine 14.01.2021 (app. no. 11161/08). see here SUMMARY The case concerned a complaint filed by two companies for breach of fair trial. The ECtHR examined the action concerning the first applicant company, holding that the second company had no legal interest. In the domestic […]
JUDGMENT Stevan Petrović v. Serbia 20.04.2021 (app. no. 6097/16 and 28999/19) see here SUMMARY Torture of a detainee by police. Duration of 3 years of temporary detention. Ineffective research into torture. Following a search of his residence, the applicant was misled into the police station to testify as a witness, but an arrest warrant and […]
JUDGMENT Parfitt v. the United Kingdom 21.4.2021 (no. 18533/21) see here SUMMARY Withdrawal of treatment for a five-year-old girl, who was in a permanent coma. Her mother complained that any interruption in her treatment that would keep her alive would violate her daughter’s rights and that national courts that ruled otherwise did not take sufficient […]
JUDGMENT Ahmet Hüsrev Altan v. Turkey 13.4.2021 (application no. 13252/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the pre-trial detention of the applicant, who is a well-known novelist and journalist, following his arrest on suspicion of membership of the Fetullahist Terrorist Organisation/Parallel State Structure. The events took place around the attempted coup d’état in July 2016 […]
JUDGMENT Κ.Ι. v. France 15.04.2021 (app. no. 5560/19) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a Russian national of Chechen origin who arrived in France when he was still a minor and obtained refugee status. After being convicted for a terrorism offence and on the grounds that his presence in France represented a serious threat to […]
JUDGMENT Murat Aksoy v. Turkey 13.04.2021 (app. no. 80/17) see here SUMMARY A well-known journalist, critical of the government with rich activity in the print and electronic press, was arrested after the coup of July 15, 2016 in Turkey, and was temporarily detained for 13 months. Two criminal charges were brought against him for belonging […]
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