The case concerns the allegedly excessive length of restitution proceedings. It raises issues under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention. FOURTH SECTION CASE OF GECHEVI v. BULGARIA (Application no. 54909/14) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 22 June 2021 This judgment…
CASE OF ZHELEZOV v. BULGARIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 70560/13
The case concerns a complaint under Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 of the Convention that, in criminal proceedings against the applicant, the court of last instance adopted a new legal classification, without affording the applicant an opportunity to comment.…
CASE OF BALLIKTAŞ BINGÖLLÜ v. TURKEY (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 76730/12
The case concerns a specific type of proceedings in which the applicant’s request for the removal of statutory restrictions resulting from a past conviction were rejected. The applicant complained that she had been denied access to a court on account…
CASE OF ADZHIGITOVA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 40165/07 and 2593/08
The applications concern the operation carried out in the village of Borozdinovskaya by the Vostok Battalion in Chechnya on 4 June 2005. The applicants alleged that military service personnel unlawfully searched their houses, arrested, ill-treated and killed local men, and…
CASE OF S.W. v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 87/18
The applicant complains that accusations of professional misconduct made by a Family Court judge in the course of a fact-finding hearing in which she gave evidence as a professional witness breached her rights under Articles 6 and 8 of the…
CASE OF BOYKO AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 24753/13 and 3 others – see appended table
The applicants alleged that they had been ill-treated by the police and that the investigation into their respective complaints had been ineffective. In addition, one applicant (application no. 57854/13) also raised other complaints under Article 5 §§ 1, 3, 4…
CASE OF TRYAPYSHKO v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 59577/12
The present case concerns the applicant’s complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention that the appellate court had acted arbitrarily when it accepted the respondent’s belated appeal and…
CASE OF SHUBITIDZE v. GEORGIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 43854/12
The case concerns the alleged unfairness, within the meaning of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention, of the criminal proceedings conducted against the applicant, on account of the manner in which the principal evidence was obtained and used against…
CASE OF MATTEI AND OTHERS v. MALTA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 14615/19
The case concerns the requisition of the applicants’ property and the disproportionality of the rent received by the applicants under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1, as well as the effectiveness of the Constitutional Court as a remedy for the…
CASE OF SANDOR VARGA AND OTHERS v. HUNGARY (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 39734/15 and 2 others
The cases concern the applicants’ life imprisonment without the possibility of release on parole. The applicants complained that their sentences constituted inhuman and degrading punishment, in breach of Article 3 of the Convention. FIRST SECTION CASE OF SÁNDOR VARGA AND…