The application concerns the issue of meal, travel and family separation allowances for the judges and the judicial clerks at the State level. Although the same legislation applies to both categories, the national courts decided that the judicial clerks had…
CASE OF PAKETOVA AND OTHERS v. BULGARIA (European Court of Human Rights) 17808/19 and 36972/19
The case concerns the applicants’ complaints that they had been forced to leave their homes and prevented from returning subsequently, and that the authorities had refused them protection in an environment of racially based hostility. The applicants relied on Articles…
CASE OF BESNIK CANI v. ALBANIA (European Court of Human Rights) 37474/20
The applicant is a former prosecutor and the case concerns his complaint under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention that the Special Appeal Chamber that dismissed him from his former office was not “a tribunal established by law”, given…
CASE OF ANGERJÄRV AND GREINOMAN v. ESTONIA (European Court of Human Rights) 16358/18 and 34964/18
The similar applications by two lawyers concern the fact that it was impossible for them to challenge decisions by which judges had removed them from court proceedings for obstructing the proceedings and for inappropriate behaviour, and the impact that their…
CASE OF KARA-MURZA v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 2513/14
The case concerns the annulment of the applicant’s registration as a candidate for election to a regional legislature on the ground of his having two nationalities. THIRD SECTION CASE OF KARA-MURZA v. RUSSIA (Application no. 2513/14) JUDGMENT Art 3 P1•…
CASE OF DE LEGÉ v. THE NETHERLANDS (European Court of Human Rights) 58342/15
The case concerns the use of documents for the re-setting of a tax fine. Those documents relate to a foreign bank account and had been obtained from the applicant under threat of substantial penalty payments. The applicant alleged disrespect of…
CASE OF KOPIĆ v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) 16789/19
The applicant complained of the inadequate conditions of his detention. FIRST SECTION CASE OF KOPIĆ v. CROATIA (Application no. 16789/19) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 29 September 2022 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case…
CASE OF LUKASH AND MAGDALITS v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) 57967/15 and 37540/16
The applicants complained of the unlawful detention. FIFTH SECTION CASE OF LUKASH AND MAGDALITS v. UKRAINE (Applications nos. 57967/15 and 37540/16) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 29 September 2022 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the…
CASE OF KLESHCHEVNIKOV AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) 48458/13 and 2 others
The applicants complained of the inadequate conditions of their detention and of the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law. They also raised other complaints under the provisions of the Convention. FIFTH SECTION CASE OF KLESHCHEVNIKOV AND OTHERS v.…
CASE OF MAKSIMENKO v. UKRAINE (No. 2) (European Court of Human Rights) 45547/13
The present case concerns the applicant’s complaints under Articles 3 and 8 of the Convention about his handcuffing in a courtroom and, under Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (c) of the Convention, about a breach of his defence rights…