The case concerns legislative intervention in the course of ongoing proceedings. In particular, the applicant complained, under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention, that the enactment of Law no. 296/2006 had denied her the right to a fair trial.…
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CASE OF LYSYUK v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 72531/13
The case concerns the applicant’s complaints, under Article 6 § 1 and Article 8 of the Convention, that covert recordings of his conversations had been made unlawfully and subsequently used as evidence in criminal proceedings brought against him for bribery.…
CASE OF M.B. v. POLAND (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 60157/15
The case concerns the applicant’s detention in a psychiatric hospital on the basis of an allegedly outdated medical assessment. On 13 January 2014 the applicant attacked his parents with a knife. Following that incident, the Trzebnica District Prosecutor instituted criminal…
CASE OF STANISZEWSKI v. POLAND (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 20422/15
The case concerns the sanctioning of the applicant for having published untrue statements about a candidate in local government elections. FIRST SECTION CASE OF STANISZEWSKI v. POLAND (Application no. 20422/15) JUDGMENT Art 10 • Freedom of expression • Sanctioning of…
CASE OF MILACHIKJ v. NORTH MACEDONIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 44773/16
The case concerns an alleged violation of the presumption of innocence (Article 6 § 2 of the Convention) during compensation proceedings regarding a car which had been impounded from him in the context of misdemeanour proceedings for an administrative customs-related…
CASE OF SAMSIN v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 38977/19
The applicant complained, in particular, that his dismissal from the position of Supreme Court judge and the measures applied to him under the Government Cleansing (Lustration) Act had breached his rights under Article 8 of the Convention. FIFTH SECTION CASE…
CASE OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE AND MUSTAFAYEV v. AZERBAIJAN (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 74288/14 and 64568/16
The present two applications concern the restrictions imposed on the bank accounts of the applicants and on the freedom of movement of the applicant by the domestic authorities. The applicants raise various complaints under Articles 6, 11, 13, 18 and…
CASE OF KAPA AND OTHERS v. POLAND (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 75031/13 and 3 others
The case raises an issue under Article 8 in so far as the State authorities, for a period of over two years, routed extremely heavy day and night motorway traffic via a road unequipped for such a purpose which ran…
CASE OF M.L. v. SLOVAKIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 34159/17
The present case concerns the protection of the applicant’s private and family life in defamation proceedings that the applicant instituted against several newspaper publishers which had published articles about her deceased son, accompanied by pictures of him. FIRST SECTION CASE…
The Association of Investigative Reporters and Editorial Security of Moldova and Sanduța v. the Republic of Moldova (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 255 October 2021 The Association of Investigative Reporters and Editorial Security of Moldova and Sanduța v. the Republic of Moldova – 4358/19 Judgment 12.10.2021 [Section II] Article 10 Article 10-1 Freedom of expression No…