The applicants complained of the denial of access to higher courts in their cases. FIFTH SECTION CASE OF METYOLKINA AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE (Application no. 4827/11 and 4 others – see appended table) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 28 October 2021 This judgment…
CASE OF KUPAS v. HUNGARY (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 24720/17
The case concerns the procedure for the return of a child to Switzerland, his habitual country of residence, which he left with his mother, in application of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and the…
CASE OF CARMELINA MICALLEF v. MALTA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 23264/18
The case concerns the taking of property under successive titles, and eventually its expropriation. In particular, the adequacy of the compensation due on the basis of the Land Acquisition (Public Purpose) Ordinance. FIRST SECTION CASE OF CARMELINA MICALLEF v. MALTA…
CASE OF BANCSOK AND LASZLO MAGYAR (NO.2) v. HUNGARY (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 52374/15 and 53364/15
The cases concern the applicants’ sentences of life imprisonment with the possibility of release on parole once they have served a forty-year term. The applicants complained that their sentences constituted inhuman and degrading punishment, in breach of Article 3 of…
Šaltinytė v. Lithuania (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 255 October 2021 Šaltinytė v. Lithuania – 32934/19 Judgment 26.10.2021 [Section II] Article 14 Discrimination Upper age limit (35 years) for eligibility for “young families” housing subsidy based on objective data and justified: no…
León Madrid v. Spain (European Court of Human Rights)
The present request concerns the applicant’s request to reverse the order of surnames carried by his minor daughter. At the time of the facts, the Spanish legislation provided that in case of disagreement between the parents, the child would bear…
Kindlhofer v. Austria (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 255 October 2021 Kindlhofer v. Austria – 20962/15 Judgment 26.10.2021 [Section IV] Article 2 of Protocol No. 7 Right of appeal in criminal matters Offence punishable by a fine, or imprisonment in default of…
CASE OF O.P. v. THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 33418/17
The case is about the applicant’s remand in custody for almost one year in the absence of a reasonable suspicion that she had committed the offence imputed to her. It also concerns the courts’ two weeks delay before examining a…
CASE OF TOPLAK AND MRAK v. SLOVENIA (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 34591/19 and 42545/19
The case concerns the alleged lack of adequate measures to allow the applicants, who had muscular dystrophy, to vote in the 2019 elections to the European Parliament and in a 2015 national referendum and the alleged lack of effective remedies…
CASE OF ŠALTINYTĖ v. LITHUANIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 32934/19
The case concerns alleged discrimination on the grounds of age when granting housing assistance and the reasoning provided by the domestic courts for refusing to refer the matter to the Constitutional Court. SECOND SECTION CASE OF ŠALTINYTĖ v. LITHUANIA (Application…