Overview of the Case-law of the ECHR 2016

Last Updated on April 21, 2019 by LawEuro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword to the 2015 edition

Introduction

Jurisdiction and admissibility

• Jurisdiction of States (Article 1)
• Admissibility (Articles 34 and 35)
• Locus standi (Article 34)
• No significant disadvantage (Article 35 § 3 (b))

“Core” rights

Right to life (Article 2)

• Effective investigation
• Expulsion

Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment (Article 3)

• Inhuman or degrading treatment
• Degrading treatment
• Inhuman or degrading punishment
• Effective investigation
• Expulsion
• Detention

Prohibition of slavery and forced labour (Article 4)

• Work required of detainees (Article 4 § 3 (a))

Right to liberty and security (Article 5)

• Lawful arrest or detention (Article 5 § 1)
• Minors (Article 5 § 1 (d))
• Reasonableness of pre-trial detention (Article 5 § 3)
• Review of lawfulness of detention (Article 5 § 4)

Procedural rights

Right to a fair hearing in civil proceedings (Article 6 § 1)

• Applicability
• Access to a court
• Fairness of the proceedings

Right to a fair hearing in criminal proceedings (Article 6 § 1)

• Access to a court
• Fairness of the proceedings
• Presumption of innocence (Article 6 § 2)
• Defence rights (Article 6 § 3)
• Defence through legal assistance (Article 6 § 3 (c))

Other rights in criminal proceedings

• No punishment without law (Article 7)

Right not to be tried or punished twice (Article 4 of Protocol No. 7)

Prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens (Article 4 of Protocol No. 4)

Right to an effective remedy (Article 13)

Other rights and freedoms

Right to respect for one’s private and family life, home and correspondence (Article 8)

• Private life
• Private and family life
• Family life
• Home
• Correspondence

Freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Article 9)

• Freedom of religion
• Manifest one’s religion or belief
• Positive obligations

Freedom of expression (Article 10)

• Applicability
• Freedom of expression
• Freedom of the press
• Freedom to receive and impart information

Freedom of assembly and association (Article 11)

• Freedom of peaceful assembly
• Freedom of association

Prohibition of discrimination (Article 14)

• Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 8
• Article 14 of the Convention taken in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1
• Article 14 of the Convention taken in conjunction with Article 2 of Protocol No. 1
• Article 14 of the Convention taken in conjunction with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1

Protection of property (Article 1 of Protocol No. 1)

• Applicability
• Enjoyment of possessions
• Control of the use of property
• Right to free elections (Article 3 of Protoco l No. 1)

Other Convention provisions

Limitation on use of restrictions on rights (Article 18)

Striking out (Article 37)

• List of Cited Cases

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