Category: European Court of Human Rights

CASE OF LA SPADA v. ITALY – 2731/14. The case concerns the deprivation of the applicant’s land through the application by the domestic courts of the constructive-expropriation rule (accessione invertita or occupazione acquisitiva)

The case concerns the deprivation of the applicant’s land through the application by the domestic courts of the constructive-expropriation rule (accessione invertita or occupazione acquisitiva), as well as the non-enforcement of the domestic courts’ decisions rendered in this respect. As…

CASE OF K.P. v. POLAND – 52641/16

The application concerns the length of the applicant’s detention on remand, restrictions on the applicant’s family visits and allegations of abuse of power by a prison officer in the context of a relationship of dependence, as a consequence of which…

CASE OF RESTANȚIA v. ROMANIA – 10875/19

The application concerns the applicant’s extended medical detention in a psychiatric hospital (since 2011) and the consequences this measure had for the conduct of civil proceedings concerning the property title to his family house.

CASE OF VASSALLO AND VINCENTI v. MALTA – 38111/21. The application concerns an imposed lease under Act XXIII of 1979 amending Chapter 158 of the Laws of Malta affecting the applicants’ property at Flat 19 Vincenti Buildings, Straight Street, Valletta, as of 1991

The application concerns an imposed lease under Act XXIII of 1979 amending Chapter 158 of the Laws of Malta (‘the Ordinance’) affecting the applicants’ property at Flat 19 Vincenti Buildings, Straight Street, Valletta (which they hold under a title of…

CASE OF PACHECO CASTELO v. PORTUGAL – 13218/21

The case concerns a judgment of the Supreme Court of 2 December 2020 keeping joint legal custody of the child with both parents and establishing the domicile of the applicant’s daughter with her grandmother. Under Article 8 of the Convention, the…

CASE OF CACHIA AND OTHERS v. MALTA – 6335/21

The application concerns the applicants’ property no. 16-18, The Strand, Sliema which has been rented out since 1976, as commercial premises, and is affected by the restrictions applicable under the Reletting of Urban Property (Regulation) Ordinance, Chapter 69 of the…