Legal summary January 2024 al-Hawsawi v. Lithuania – 6383/17 Judgment 16.1.2024 [Section II] Article 3 Inhuman treatment Effective investigation Inhuman treatment during the applicant’s extraordinary rendition to CIA: violation Article 5 Article 5-1 Deprivation of liberty Lawful arrest or detention…
CASE OF ZAMMIT v. MALTA – 3158/21
The application concerns a unilaterally imposed lease under Act XXIII of 1979 amending Chapter 158 of the Laws of Malta (‘the Ordinance’) affecting the applicant’s property ‘Erica’, in Valletta Road, Paola, as of March 2004. European Court of Human Rights…
CASE OF VEIGA CARDOSO v. PORTUGAL – The case concerns the applicant’s criminal conviction for aggravated defamation of a public prosecutor
European Court of Human Rights FOURTH SECTION CASE OF VEIGA CARDOSO v. PORTUGAL (Application no. 48979/19) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 16 January 2024 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Veiga Cardoso v.…
CASE OF VASILEVSKI v. NORTH MACEDONIA – 27509/18
The case concerns the alleged lack of adversarial process in proceedings concerning the applicant’s pre-trial detention, which had been ordered in the context of criminal proceedings relating to an incident of 27 April 2017 when a group of protesters had entered…
CASE OF PESHOV AND RISTOVSKI v. NORTH MACEDONIA – 18678/18 and 19821/20
The case concerns allegedly insufficient reasoning in the courts’ decisions ordering the applicants’ pre-trial detention and certain procedural flaws in related review proceedings. European Court of Human Rights SECOND SECTION CASE OF PESHOV AND RISTOVSKI v. NORTH MACEDONIA (Applications nos.…
CASE OF MILJAK v. CROATIA – 15681/18
The case concerns the applicant’s alleged ill-treatment by prison officers and the lack of an effective investigation into the incident. European Court of Human Rights SECOND SECTION CASE OF MILJAK v. CROATIA (Application no. 15681/18) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 16 January 2024…
CASE OF FERNANDES v. PORTUGAL – 33023/17 and 56476/17
European Court of Human Rights FOURTH SECTION CASE OF FERNANDES v. PORTUGAL (Applications nos. 33023/17 and 56476/17) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 16 January 2024 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Fernandes v.…
CASE OF ÇETİNKAYA v. TÜRKİYE – 76619/11
European Court of Human Rights SECOND SECTION CASE OF ÇETİNKAYA v. TÜRKİYE (Application no. 76619/11) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 16 January 2024 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Çetinkaya v. Türkiye, The…
CASE OF RIZZO AND OTHERS v. MALTA – 36318/21
The case concerns the effectiveness of an appeal to the Constitutional Court for the purposes of Article 13 following developments in domestic case-law in the ambit of judgments relating to old rent laws raising issues under Article 1 of Protocol…
CASE OF NAFORNIȚA v. THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA – The applicants complained that their eviction from the apartment in which they had been living had breached their rights guaranteed under Article 8 of the Convention
European Court of Human Rights (Application no. 49066/12) The case concerns the applicants’ eviction from an apartment after more than eleven years of living there and the alleged failure of the courts to properly weigh the competing interests when ordering…