THIRD SECTION CASE OF LAVRENTYEV v. RUSSIA (Application no. 71333/10) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 21 June 2022 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Lavrentyev v. Russia, The European Court of Human Rights…
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CASE OF AFITSERYAN v. ARMENIA (European Court of Human Rights) 28597/14
The case concerns the lawfulness of two periods of the applicant’s detention: (a) the period between 3 and 20 December 2013, and (b) the period during trial from 20 December 2013 until his conviction on 19 January 2015. It raises…
CASE OF S.M. v. RUSSIA – 17219/20. The present case concerns the deprivation of the applicant’s parental authority over her two daughters
The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. The applicant is the biological mother of two girls: Ye., born in 2010 from the applicant’s relationship with Mr D.B. (the latter died in 2018),…
CASE OF P.W. v. AUSTRIA (European Court of Human Rights) 10425/19
The present case concerns the applicant’s complaints in relation to her confinement in an institution for mentally ill offenders after having committed an attempt to resist arrest by the police. She relied on Articles 5 and 6 of the Convention as well…
Goulandris and Vardinogianni v. Greece (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 263 June 2022 Goulandris and Vardinogianni v. Greece – 1735/13 Judgment 16.6.2022 [Section I] Article 4 of Protocol No. 7 Right not to be tried or punished twice Criminal proceedings duplicating administrative fine for…
CASE OF RAMIZ JAFAROV v. AZERBAIJAN – 40424/12. The applicant complained that the domestic authorities’ refusal to grant him a special pension for his years of service with the prosecution authorities had breached his property rights and had been discriminatory
Relying on Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention and Article 14 of the Convention, the applicant complained that the domestic authorities’ refusal to grant him a special pension for his years of service with the prosecution authorities…
CASE OF GOULANDRIS AND VARDINOGIANNI v. GREECE – 1735/13. Criminal proceedings duplicating administrative fine for unlawful construction, but not the annual fine for its preservation
The case concerns the imposition of urban-planning administrative fines on the applicants relating to two stone walls constructed on their property without the requisite building permit, and their trial and punishment in criminal proceedings resulting in a sentence of seven…
CASE OF ŻUREK v. POLAND (European Court of Human Rights) 39650/18
The applicant alleged that he had been denied access to a court to contest the premature and allegedly arbitrary termination of his term of office as a judicial member of the National Council of the Judiciary. He also complained of…
CASE OF SKORUPA v. POLAND – 44153/15. The case concerns the alleged ill-treatment inflicted on the applicant in the course of his processing for sobering-up, as well as the unlawfulness of his detention at the sobering-up centre
On 12 March 2014 at 9.00 p.m. the applicant, who had been drinking, was stopped by two police officers when he was on his way home from a nearby bar. He was then taken to Czerwionka police station, which was…
Stoyanova v. Bulgaria (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 263 June 2022 Stoyanova v. Bulgaria – 56070/18 Judgment 14.6.2022 [Section IV] Article 14 Discrimination Homophobic motives underlying a murder not constituting a statutory aggravating factor and having no measurable effect on sentencing: violation…