The applicant, a lawyer defending a client in a criminal case, found out that a telephone conversation between him and that client had been intercepted, recorded and transcribed as a result of the covert monitoring of the client’s telephone line.…
Category: European Court of Human Rights
CASE OF ASSOTSIATSIYA NGO GOLOS AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 41055/12
The case concerns the statutory “silence period”, prohibiting the dissemination of certain information during the five days preceding an election day, and the fine imposed on the first applicant in relation to the publication of such election-related materials on the…
CASE OF KOVROV AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 42296/09 and 4 others
The present case concerns complaints about pre-trial detention and house arrest and the right to compensation for the violation of the right to trial within a reasonable time or to release pending trial. THIRD SECTION CASE OF KOVROV AND OTHERS…
CASE OF N. v. ROMANIA (No. 2) (European Court of Human Rights) 38048/18
The present application concerns proceedings in which the domestic courts, basing their decisions mainly on medical expert opinions, divested the applicant of his legal capacity and placed him under the full authority of a legal guardian. It also concerns the…
CASE OF KIKABIDZE v. GEORGIA (European Court of Human Rights) 57642/12
The present application concerns the alleged unfairness of the criminal proceedings conducted against the applicant. He complains under Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (b) and (d) of the Convention about the allegedly inadequate time and resources afforded for the…
CASE OF SÄRGAVA v. ESTONIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 698/19
The main issue in the present case is whether the domestic law was sufficiently clear and afforded the requisite safeguards for the protection of legal professional privilege in the event of the seizure and subsequent examination of a lawyer’s laptop…
CASE OF MIKELADZE AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 54217/16
The present case principally concerns the applicants’ complaints that during their arrest and detention the police had physically and verbally assaulted them, using discriminatory insults, and that the criminal investigation into their complaints had been ineffective, in breach of Articles 3…
Spadijer v. Montenegro (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 256 November 2021 Špadijer v. Montenegro – 31549/18 Judgment 9.11.2021 [Section V] Article 8 Positive obligations Authorities’ failure to protect the applicant from bullying by colleagues: violation Facts – The applicant worked as a…
CASE OF ALEKSANDROV v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 44414/12
This case concerns civil defamation proceedings instituted against the applicant, a member of a municipal council, by the chair of an electoral commission following the applicant’s interview in which he remarked that he felt offended by the chair’s lack of…
CASE OF VLADIMIR REGIONAL PUBLIC ASSOCIATION OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS ‘SODEYSTVIYE’ v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 53097/08
THIRD SECTION CASE OF VLADIMIR REGIONAL PUBLIC ASSOCIATION OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS ‘SODEYSTVIYE’ v. RUSSIA (Application no. 53097/08) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 9 November 2021 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Vladimir…