. The case concerns the applicant company’s allegations under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 that it had been prevented by the local authorities from carrying out the erection of a multi-storied residential building and the lack of any compensation in that…
CASE OF SABER v. NORWAY (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 459/18
. The application concerns the applicant’s complaint that proceedings in respect of search and seizure of data from his smart phone, facilitating access to correspondence between him and his lawyers, entailed a violation of Articles 6 and 8 of the…
CASE OF MILE NOVAKOVIC v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 73544/14
. The applicant worked as a secondary school teacher in Eastern Slavonia and was dismissed for failing to use the standard Croatian language when teaching. The authorities held that the applicant could not be expected to learn Croatian, given that…
CASE OF BELA NEMETH v. HUNGARY (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 73303/14
. The case concerns a legislative amendment that placed a moratorium on evictions during the crisis in Hungary arising from widespread defaulting on foreign-currency-denominated loans. Within the context of an official auction, this amendment resulted in the applicant not being…
CASE OF CROATIAN GOLF FEDERATION v. CROATIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 66994/14
. The present case concerns dissolution of the applicant association by a decision of the administrative authorities on account of the fact that bankruptcy proceedings had been opened against it, even though in those bankruptcy proceedings it had been decided,…
CASE OF YUKHYMOVYCH v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 11464/12
. The case concerns the death of the applicant’s son during an arrest attempt and the domestic authorities’ failure to conduct a prompt and effective investigation into the matter in breach of Article 2 of the Convention. FIFTH SECTION CASE…
Usmanov v. Russia (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 246 December 2020 Usmanov v. Russia – 43936/18 Judgment 22.12.2020 [Section III] Article 8 Article 8-1 Respect for private life Disproportionate and arbitrary annulment of citizenship for omitting information about siblings when applying ten…
Selahattin Demirtas v. Turkey (no. 2) [GC] (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 246 December 2020 Selahattin Demirtaş v. Turkey (no. 2) [GC] – 14305/17 Judgment 22.12.2020 [GC] Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 Free expression of the opinion of the people Member of parliament excluded from…
Gestur Jonsson and Ragnar Halldor Hall v. Iceland [GC] (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 246 December 2020 Gestur Jónsson and Ragnar Halldór Hall v. Iceland [GC] – 68271/14 and 68273/14 Judgment 22.12.2020 [GC] Article 6 Criminal proceedings Article 6-1 Criminal charge EUR 6,200 fine without possible imprisonment for…
CASE OF M.L. v. NORWAY (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 64639/16
. The application concerns a decision to deprive the applicant of her parental responsibilities in respect of her daughter, who had been in foster care, and authorise the daughter’s adoption by her foster parents. The applicant complained that those measures…