JUDGMENT Kaminskas v. Lithuania 04.08.2020 (app. no. 44817/18) see here SUMMARY Demolition of a house in a forest area and protection of the environment. Right to privacy. Court decision for demolition of an illegal building of the applicant, who built it in a forest area, knowing the forest character of the property. The applicant’s situation […]
JUDGMENT Drašković v. Montenegro 09.06.2020 (app. no. 40597/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s wish to have her husband’s remains removed from Montenegro to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which another member of the family refused to allow. The Court found in particular that such a dispute fell to be examined under both the private […]
JUDGMENT Ghoumid and others v. France 25.06.2020 (app. 52273/16, 52285/16, 52290/16, 52294/16 and 52302/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned five individuals, formerly having dual nationality, who were convicted of participation in a criminal conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism. After serving their sentences they were released in 2009 and 2010, then stripped of […]
JUDGMENT Pormes v. the Netherlands 28.07.2020 (app. no. 25402/14) see here SUMMARY Continued deportation of a criminal and the right to privacy. The applicant entered the Netherlands with a visa at the age of just 4 and lived in that country until he was 26 years old. He never obtained a residence permit and many […]
JUDGMENT Yunusova and Yunusov v. Azerbaijan 16.07.202 (no. 2) (app. no. 68817/14) see here SUMMARY Defenders of Human Rights and heaps of violations against them. Protection from the Court. The applicants are activists, members of NGOs that aim to promote dialogue between civil society. They had been summoned as witnesses in a third-party trial and […]
JUDGMENT D. v. France 16.07.2020 (app. no. 11288/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the refusal to record in the French register of births, marriages and deaths the details of the birth certificate of a child born abroad through a gestational surrogacy arrangement in so far as the certificate designated the intended mother, who was […]
JUDGMENT Rana v. Hungary 16.7.2020 (no. 40888/17) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a transgender man from Iran who had obtained asylum in Hungary but could not legally change his gender and name in that country. The Court noted that the domestic system for gender recognition had excluded the applicant simply because he did not […]
JUDGMENT Y.T. v. Bulgaria 09.07.2020 (no. 41701/16) see here SUMMARY The case concerned a transsexual (Y.T.) who had taken steps to change his physical appearance and whose request for (female to male) gender reassignment had been refused by the Bulgarian courts. He claimed that he had become aware of his male gender identity during adolescence […]
JUDGMENT Bagirov v. Azerbaijan 25.06.2020 (no. 81024/12 and 28198/15) see here SUMMARY Disbarrement of a lawyer by a Bar Association. Lawyer’s confidentiality duty. Freedom of expression and the right to privacy. The applicant, a lawyer by profession, disclosed the cause of death of his client’s son. He was suspended from practising law for one year, for […]
JUDGMENT Stavropoulos and others v. Greece 25.06.2020 (no. 52484/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the practice of certain registry offices in Greece indicating on birth certificates when a child is named by a civil act. Stavroula-Dorothea Stavropoulou and her parents, the applicants in the case, complained in particular that the handwritten note “naming” on […]
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