INTRODUCTION. The case concerns the alleged unfairness, within the meaning of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention, of the criminal proceedings conducted against the applicants on account of the manner in which the principal evidence against them was obtained and…
CASE OF CAUCHI v. MALTA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 14013/19
The present application concerns compensation and redress for a breach of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention in relation to the disproportionate amount of rent received by the applicant, and therefore the effectiveness in 2018 of the available…
CASE OF MATALAS v. GREECE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 1864/18
INTRODUCTION. The application concerns the criminal conviction of the applicant, the managing director of a public limited liability company, for slanderous defamation of the former lawyer of the company. The applicant had sent to that lawyer an official document in…
CASE OF STOIMENOVIKJ AND MILOSHEVIKJ v. NORTH MACEDONIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 59842/14
INTRODUCTION. The application concerns, above all, a complaint under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention about alleged lack of impartiality of the Supreme Court, whose composition in a civil case included a judge who had previously participated as a…
CASE OF SMILJANIC v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 35983/14
INTRODUCTION. The case concerns the alleged failure on the part of the domestic authorities to enforce the domestic legal framework of road traffic regulations by taking adequate measures with respect to the person who had caused a road collision in…
CASE OF GHAILAN AND OTHERS v. SPAIN (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 36366/14
INTRODUCTION. The application concerns the applicants’ eviction and the demolition of their only home. The principal issue is whether the interference with the applicants’ right to respect for their home under Article 8 of the Convention was “necessary in a…
Petrella v. Italy (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 249 March 2021 Petrella v. Italy – 24340/07 Judgment 18.3.2021 [Section I] Article 6 Civil proceedings Article 6-1 Access to court Civil rights and obligations Length of preliminary investigations prevented the applicant from joining…
CASE OF BON v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 26933/15
INTRODUCTION. The applicant, an environmental activist, was convicted and fined for insulting a local politician, stating in public that the latter had “acted like a real cockroach”. The case concerns the applicant’s complaints of the violation of his rights to…
CASE OF KARAS v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 13679/15
FIRST SECTION CASE OF KARAS v. CROATIA (Application no. 13679/15) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 18 March 2021 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Karas v. Croatia, The European Court of Human Rights…
CASE OF GARAI v. HUNGARY (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 75950/14
INTRODUCTION. The case concerns the applicant’s complaints under Articles 6, 8 and 13 of the Convention, alleging a failure by the Hungarian authorities to enforce decisions on his contact rights in respect of his daughter C. FIRST SECTION CASE OF GARAI…