The case concerns complaints about an unjustified search in the home of the applicants and the indiscriminate seizure of their personal belongings under Article 8 of the Convention. Ms Svetova also complained that the above measures amounted to a breach of…
Category: European Court of Human Rights
Macate v. Lithuania [GC] (European Court of Human Rights)
Legal summary January 2023 Macatė v. Lithuania [GC] – 61435/19 Judgment 23.1.2023 [GC] Article 10 Article 10-1 Freedom of expression Freedom to impart information No legitimate aim for temporary suspension of children’s fairy tale book depicting same-sex relationships and its…
CASE OF MACATE v. LITHUANIA (European Court of Human Rights) 61435/19
The case concerns a collection of six fairy tales written by the applicant, two of which depicted marriage between persons of the same sex. After its publication, the distribution of the book was temporarily suspended, and was later resumed after…
CASE OF VALAITIS v. LITHUANIA (European Court of Human Rights) 976/20
The case concerns the applicants’ complaint that the first applicant had been dismissed from his job at the company AB Amber Grid because of his role in the activities of the second applicant – the trade union of that company’s…
CASE OF DARAIBOU v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) 84523/17
The present case concerns a fire that broke out in a detention centre, in which three detained migrants died and the applicant suffered severe injuries. The applicant complained, under both the substantive and procedural limbs of Article 2 of the…
CASE OF FEDOTOVA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 40792/10, 30538/14 and 43439/14
The applicants alleged that they were unable to have their respective relationships recognised and protected by law, on account of the Russian authorities’ refusal to allow them to marry and in the absence of any other form of legal recognition…
CASE OF BERTAGNA v. ITALY (European Court of Human Rights) 20308/03
The applicant complained of the excessive length of civil proceedings. FIRST SECTION CASE OF BERTAGNA v. ITALY (Application no. 20308/03) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 12 January 2023 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case…
CASE OF POTOCZKA AND ADAMCO v. SLOVAKIA (European Court of Human Rights) 7286/16
The case concerns the tapping in 2004, in the course of criminal proceedings concerning the second applicant, of a mobile telephone line for which the subscription was in the name of the first applicant but which according to the authorities…
CASE OF KILIC v. AUSTRIA (European Court of Human Rights) 27700/15
Under Article 8 and in substance also under Article 9 of the Convention, the applicants complained that the domestic courts had refused to return their two youngest children, R. and M., to their care and that the children’s placement with…
CASE OF OVCHARENKO AND KOLOS v. UKRAINE – 27276/15 and 33692/15. The present case concerns the dismissal of two judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine
FIFTH SECTION CASE OF OVCHARENKO AND KOLOS v. UKRAINE (Applications nos. 27276/15 and 33692/15) JUDGMENT Art 8 • Private life • Art 6 (civil) • Fair hearing • Constitutional Court judges’ dismissal for participating in a debatable judgment, without clear…