Private life

A senior citizen with serious medical conditions received no help from the authorities. Violation of private life

JUDGMENT Toader v. Romania 12.03.2024 (app. no. 22415/22) see here SUMMARY The applicant, a 90-year-old pensioner, lived alone and suffered from serious orthopaedic conditions which made her unable to support herself. Following a visit to the applicant’s home to assess her living conditions and their compatibility with her medical condition, social workers from the local […]

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Failure of the authorities to protect the applicant’s reputation from intense criticism and attacks in the online media. Violation of private life

JUDGMENT Ungur v. Romania 12.03.2024 (app. no. 2156/16) see here SUMMARY Failure of national courts to protect the applicant’s reputation from attacks in the online media. The applicant, who was a well-known businessman and philanthropist in his town, filed a lawsuit against C.A., director of Bistrițeanul.ro (website), accusing him of extortion. Shortly after, Bistrițeanul.ro published […]

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Disclosure to the press of a telephone conversation and storage of personal data in the context of a criminal investigation without the applicant being a suspect! Violation of the right to private life

JUDGMENT Kaczmarek v. Poland 22.02.2024 ( app. no. 16974/14) see here SUMMARY The applicant was the wife of a minister at the time in question. In the context of a criminal investigation into corruption involving her husband, telephone conversations with her husband and son were published in the press. Personal data contained in these conversations […]

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Systematic and indiscriminate retention of telecommunications data, amid proceedings against judge for bribery, breached privacy rights

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 […]

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Inadequate and ineffective investigation of alleged rape of a tourist. Greece was condemned for violating the respect for privacy and the procedural part of Article 3

JUDGMENT X. v Greece 13.02.2024 (application no. 38588/21) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s allegations that the Greek authorities had not carried out an effective investigation into her accusation that she was raped by a hotel bartender in September 2019 when she was 18 years old and on holiday with her mother, and […]

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Disclosure of sensitive personal data of HIV-positive persons following a public prosecutor’s order and without their consent. Violation of private life

JUDGMENT O.G.  and others v. Greece 23.01.2024 (app. no. 71555/12 and 48256/13) see here SUMMARY The case of O.G. and Others v. Greece (applications nos. 71555/12 and 48256/13) concerned the publication, by decision of the domestic authorities, of medical data concerning prostitutes who had been diagnosed as HIV-positive, and media coverage of them. It also […]

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A minor was classified as an adult in a migrant camp. Condemnation of Greece for lack of procedural guarantees for age determination and for degrading conditions

JUDGMENT T.K. v. Greece 18.01.2024 (app. no. 16112/20) see here SUMMARY The applicant, upon his arrival at a camp in Samos, was registered as an adult. The applicant claimed that he had produced a copy of a birth certificate where the date of birth proved that he was a minor at the relevant time. However, […]

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The monitoring and publication of emails of a political party member by his own party did not violate the right to respect for privacy and correspondence!

JUDGMENT Tena Arregui v. Spain 11.01.2024 (app. no. 42541/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the collecting and release of some of Mr Tena Arregui’s emails by the UPyD party (of which he had been a senior member) during an operation to monitor suspicions that other members had made backroom deals with the Ciudadanos party. […]

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Extraordinary appeal by the Attorney General annuls an irrevocable court decision after 11 years! Conviction for setting up an unlawful court and violation of privacy!

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 […]

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Unnecessary provisional detention, seizure of accounts in violation of the principle of proportionality and unnecessary press releases to inform the public. Conviction for multiple violations of the ECHR

JUDGMENT Narbutas v. Lithuania 19.12.2023  (app. no. 14139/21) see here SUMMARY The case concerned various remand measures applied against Šarūnas Narbutas in the context of a high-profile criminal investigation relating to his involvement in the acquisition by the Lithuanian Government of more than 300,000 covid-19 tests from a Spanish pharmaceutical company in March 2020. At […]

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