The application concerns under Article 6 of the Convention (i) the alleged unfairness of criminal proceedings owing to the applicant’s trial and conviction in absentia, (ii) the alleged breach of his right of access to a court on account of…
Category: European Court of Human Rights
CASE OF TAGANROG LRO AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA – 32401/10 and 19 others. The case concerns the forced dissolution of Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organisations in Russia
The case concerns the forced dissolution of Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organisations in Russia, the banning of their religious literature and international website on charges of extremism, the revocation of the permit to distribute religious magazines, the criminal prosecution of individual…
Straume v. Latvia (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 263 June 2022 Straume v. Latvia – 59402/14 Judgment 2.6.2022 [Section V] Article 11 Article 11-1 Freedom of association Domestic court failure to apply convention standards and acceptably assess employee sanctions, in response to…
CASE OF BABAYEV AND OTHERS v. AZERBAIJAN – 71750/13. The present case concerns the allegedly unjustified interference with the applicants’ right to freedom of assembly on account of the dispersal of an unauthorised peaceful protest
Relying on Articles 6, 10 and 11 of the Convention, the applicants alleged that their rights were breached by the domestic authorities. According to the applicants, on 4 and 5 March 2012 the mass media broadcast information to the effect…
CASE OF ADAMČO v. SLOVAKIA (No. 2) (European Court of Human Rights) 20877/19
The application concerns a situation in which the applicant, being detained, deposited an appeal in a civil-law matter with the prison authorities on the last day of the period for appealing. However the prison authorities posted it only the next…
CASE OF ŠTEFEK v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) 65173/17
The applicant was employed as an ambulance driver with the Korenica Health Centre (“the employer”), where part of his working time was spent on-call (pripravnost). The case concerns the allegedly excessive costs of civil proceedings which he was ordered to…
CASE OF CROATIA BUS D.O.O. v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) 12261/15
The applicant is a passenger transport company. The application concerns the impossibility to challenge before judicial authorities the Croatian Chamber of Economy’s refusal to approve the applicant company’s itinerary schedule, which approval had to be obtained before it could apply…
CASE OF STRAUME v. LATVIA (European Court of Human Rights) 59402/14
The case concerns detriments imposed on the applicant, a chairperson of a trade union board, for having addressed to the State officials overseeing a State-owned company a letter about trade union grievances and concerns, and the domestic courts’ decision to…
CASE OF H.M. AND OTHERS v. HUNGARY (European Court of Human Rights) 38967/17
The case concerns the confinement of an Iraqi family, including four children, in the Tompa transit zone at the border of Hungary and Serbia between 3 April and 24 August 2017. The applicants relied on Articles 3 and 8 (conditions in the…
Arnar Helgi Lárusson v. Iceland (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 262 May 2022 Arnar Helgi Lárusson v. Iceland – 23077/19 Judgment 31.5.2022 [Section III] Article 14 Discrimination No discrimination against wheelchair user unable to access two local public buildings, given other considerable measures to…