The applicant was employed as an ambulance driver with the Korenica Health Centre (“the employer”), where part of his working time was spent on-call (pripravnost). The case concerns the allegedly excessive costs of civil proceedings which he was ordered to…
CASE OF CROATIA BUS D.O.O. v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) 12261/15
The applicant is a passenger transport company. The application concerns the impossibility to challenge before judicial authorities the Croatian Chamber of Economy’s refusal to approve the applicant company’s itinerary schedule, which approval had to be obtained before it could apply…
CASE OF STRAUME v. LATVIA (European Court of Human Rights) 59402/14
The case concerns detriments imposed on the applicant, a chairperson of a trade union board, for having addressed to the State officials overseeing a State-owned company a letter about trade union grievances and concerns, and the domestic courts’ decision to…
CASE OF H.M. AND OTHERS v. HUNGARY (European Court of Human Rights) 38967/17
The case concerns the confinement of an Iraqi family, including four children, in the Tompa transit zone at the border of Hungary and Serbia between 3 April and 24 August 2017. The applicants relied on Articles 3 and 8 (conditions in the…
Arnar Helgi Lárusson v. Iceland (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 262 May 2022 Arnar Helgi Lárusson v. Iceland – 23077/19 Judgment 31.5.2022 [Section III] Article 14 Discrimination No discrimination against wheelchair user unable to access two local public buildings, given other considerable measures to…
X and Others v. Albania (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 262 May 2022 X and Others v. Albania – 73548/17 and 45521/19 Judgment 31.5.2022 [Section III] Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 General prohibition of discrimination Failure to implement swift and comprehensive desegregation measures…
CASE OF MELNIK AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 66619/10 and 2 others
The applicants are Russian nationals who alleged, among other things, that they had been ill-treated by State officials, and that there had been no effective investigation conducted in this connection. THIRD SECTION CASE OF MELNIK AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (Applications…
CASE OF GALEANO PEÑAS v. SPAIN (European Court of Human Rights) 48784/20
The application concerns the alleged violation of Article 7 and Article 5 § 1 of the Convention on the grounds of the expiry of the time-limit for enforcing the sentence of imprisonment which the applicant was serving when he lodged his…
CASE OF X AND OTHERS v. ALBANIA (European Court of Human Rights) 73548/17 and 45521/19
The case concerns the alleged discrimination of the applicants as a result of the Government’s failure to implement swift and comprehensive desegregation measures in an elementary school, which was attended almost exclusively by children of the Roma and Egyptian minorities.…
CASE OF ARNAR HELGI LÁRUSSON v. ICELAND – 23077/19. The application concerns the lack of access for the applicant, who uses a wheelchair, to public cultural and social buildings
THIRD SECTION CASE OF ARNAR HELGI LÁRUSSON v. ICELAND (Application no. 23077/19) JUDGMENT Art 14 (+ Art 8) • Positive obligations • No discrimination against wheelchair user unable to access two local public buildings, given other considerable measures taken to…