The main issue in the present case is whether the domestic law was sufficiently clear and afforded the requisite safeguards for the protection of legal professional privilege in the event of the seizure and subsequent examination of a lawyer’s laptop…
CASE OF MIKELADZE AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 54217/16
The present case principally concerns the applicants’ complaints that during their arrest and detention the police had physically and verbally assaulted them, using discriminatory insults, and that the criminal investigation into their complaints had been ineffective, in breach of Articles 3…
Spadijer v. Montenegro (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 256 November 2021 Špadijer v. Montenegro – 31549/18 Judgment 9.11.2021 [Section V] Article 8 Positive obligations Authorities’ failure to protect the applicant from bullying by colleagues: violation Facts – The applicant worked as a…
CASE OF ALEKSANDROV v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 44414/12
This case concerns civil defamation proceedings instituted against the applicant, a member of a municipal council, by the chair of an electoral commission following the applicant’s interview in which he remarked that he felt offended by the chair’s lack of…
CASE OF VLADIMIR REGIONAL PUBLIC ASSOCIATION OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS ‘SODEYSTVIYE’ v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) 53097/08
THIRD SECTION CASE OF VLADIMIR REGIONAL PUBLIC ASSOCIATION OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS ‘SODEYSTVIYE’ v. RUSSIA (Application no. 53097/08) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 9 November 2021 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Vladimir…
CASE OF SPADIJER v. MONTENEGRO (European Court of Human Rights) 31549/18
The present case concerns primarily bullying at work affecting the applicant’s psychological integrity and the failure of the relevant domestic bodies to protect her, the complaint falling under Article 8 of the Convention. The applicant also complains under Article 13…
CASE OF IGNAT v. ROMANIA (European Court of Human Rights) 17325/16
The present case raises issues under Article 6 of the Convention and concerns the alleged unfairness of the criminal proceedings opened against the applicant in so far as the appellate court overturned his acquittal on the basis of the same…
CASE OF DOLINSKA – FICEK AND OZIMEK v. POLAND (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 49868/19 and 57511/19
The applicants are judges who had applied for vacant judicial posts in other courts but were not recommended for those posts by the National Council of the Judiciary (the “NCJ”). They complained that the Chamber of Extraordinary Review and Public…
CASE OF TRETYAKOVA v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 63126/13
The case concerns the effectiveness of domestic proceedings on the applicant’s allegations under Article 2 of the Convention that her mother had died as a result of medical negligence. FIFTH SECTION CASE OF TRETYAKOVA v. UKRAINE (Application no. 63126/13) JUDGMENT…
CASE OF SHABELNIK v. UKRAINE (No. 3) (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 54806/18
The case deals with the applicant’s complaint under Article 7 of the Convention that the judicial review of his previous conviction had resulted in a new punishment being imposed on him outside the statutory time-limit. FIFTH SECTION CASE OF SHABELNIK v.…