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Publication in a newspaper of private information and images secretly obtained by a journalist acting as the candidate surrogate mother. Violation of privacy

Article 8
09/07/2021 19:33

JUDGMENT Hájovský v. Slovakia 01.07.2021 (app. no. 7796/16) see here SUMMARY Notice of finding a surrogate mother on behalf of the applicant. A journalist introduced as the surrogate mother candidate and secretly recorded his conversations, as a result of which she became the subject of a TV show. Publication in a newspaper of private information […]

Ill-treatment of Avars by Chechens who were abducted, illegally detained, beaten and some of them disappeared. Violation of important rights of the ECHR

1st P - Article 1
28/06/2021 19:08

JUDGMENT Adzhigitova and others v. Russia 22.06.2021 (app. no. 40165/07 and 2593/08) see here SUMMARY In retaliation for an investigated violent incident, Chechen soldiers stormed Avar homes, abducted many of them, took them to public places, and mistreated them. Some of them disappeared after the end of the operation. The Court found that racial prejudice […]

Police failure to prevent far-right intrusion on gay family screening! Violations of the ECHR

Article 11
02/06/2021 19:38

JUDGMENT Association ACCEPT and others v. Romania 01.06.2021 (app. no. 19237/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a demonstration that had occurred at a screening of a film involving a same-sex family during the applicant association’s LGBT History Month in February 2013. The other five applicants had attended the screening. Although the police had provided […]

Insufficient safeguards in bulk signals-intelligence gathering. Violation of Article 8 of ECHR

Article 8
31/05/2021 19:05

JUDGMENT Centrum för rättvisa v, Sweden 25.05.2021 (app. no. 35252/08) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the alleged risk that the applicant foundation’s communications had been or would be intercepted and examined by way of signals intelligence, as it communicated on a daily basis with individuals, organisations and companies in Sweden and abroad by email, […]

Violation of privacy due to the referral into a court decision on the sexual preferences and choices of the alleged rape victim! Judicial degradation of gender-based violence

Article 14
30/05/2021 18:36

JUDGMENT J.L. v. Italy 27.05.2021 (app. no. 5671/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned criminal proceedings against seven men who had been charged with the gang rape of the applicant and had been acquitted by the Italian courts. The Court held that the applicant’s rights and interests under Article 8 had not been adequately protected, […]

Exclusion of the mother from family allowances because the children were of an unknown father! Violation due to discrimination and respect for privacy

Article 14
16/05/2021 16:14

JUDGMENT Yocheva and Ganeva v. Buklgaria 11.05.2021 (app. no. 18592/15 and 43863/15) see here SUMMARY Child benefit. Mother of a single parent family. Children of an unknown father. Violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) in conjunction with the right to privacy (Article 8). Internal legal provision based on an outdated and stereotypical understanding of […]

The delay in the administration of justice in a case of medical negligence violated the procedural part of Article 8 of the ECHR

Article 8
29/04/2021 19:31

JUDGMENT Vilela and others v. Portugal 23.02.2021 (app. no. 63687/14) see here SUMMARY Right to health under Article 8 of the ECHR and obligation of States to protect patients from medical negligence. The applicants claimed that their son’s permanent disability (100%) was due to medical malpractice on the part-time mother during childbirth. They filed a […]

Verbal abuse of a student by a teacher with the words “a moron, an idiot, a fool ” in front of his classmates! Violation of privacy

Article 8
26/04/2021 18:10

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 […]

Withdrawal of treatment of a 5-year-old girl who was in a coma, due to the lack of prospects of improvement, did not violate her right to life, nor the right to privacy of herself and her mother.

Article 2
22/04/2021 17:07

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 […]

Refusal of the authorities to return the body for burial and the cremation of the deceased without the consent of the relatives. Violation of the right to private life

Article 13
21/04/2021 19:09

JUDGMENT Gatsalova v. Russia 20.04.2021 (app. no. 41318/10) see here SUMMARY Right of burial and knowledge of the place of burial of the deceased. Incineration of the dead. Right to respect for private and family life. Terrorist attack and clash with police in Russia on 13.10.2005 that resulted in the death of many participating terrorists. […]

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