. The case concerns police ill-treatment of the applicants during a political rally on 6 May 2012 at Bolotnaya Square. The applicants were neither convicted of mass disorder nor accused of any other offence in connection with the relevant events…
CASE OF KOKSOY v. TURKEY (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 31885/10
. The case concerns an alleged breach of the applicants’ right to adversarial proceedings on account of the Court of Cassation basing its decision on appeal on certain information and documents not submitted to the parties for their comments. SECOND…
CASE OF ADAM AND OTHERS v. ROMANIA (European Court of Human Rights) Applications nos. 81114/17 and 5 others
. The case concerns alleged discrimination in the baccalaureate (school‑leaving) qualification of pupils belonging to national minorities studying at school in their native tongue. The applicants, who are ethnic Hungarians, complained under Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 to the…
Muhammad and Muhammad v. Romania [GC] (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 244 October 2020 Muhammad and Muhammad v. Romania [GC] – 80982/12 Judgment 15.10.2020 [GC] Article 1 of Protocol No. 7 Procedural safeguards relating to expulsion of aliens Expulsion on national security grounds decided by…
Akbay and Others v. Germany (European Court of Human Rights)
Information Note on the Court’s case-law 244 October 2020 Akbay and Others v. Germany – 37273/15, 40495/15 and 40913/15 Judgment 15.10.2020 [Section V] Article 6 Criminal proceedings Article 6-1 Fair hearing Non-exclusion of evidence linked to direct and indirect police…
CASE OF KABANOVA v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 17317/08
. The application concerns complaints under Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention regarding the ineffectiveness of the investigation into a traffic accident which the applicant survived, while sustaining bodily injuries. FIFTH SECTION CASE OF KABANOVA v. UKRAINE (Application no.…
CASE OF STARISHKO v. UKRAINE (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 61839/12
. The applicant complained about the lack of any genuine prospect of his release and about the restrictions on his right to receive visits in prison from 2000 to 2014. FIFTH SECTION CASE OF STARISHKO v. UKRAINE (Application no. 61839/12)…
Just satisfaction claims – Practice direction issued by the President of the Court in accordance with Rule 32 of the Rules of Court on 28 March 2007
Just satisfaction claims I. Introduction 1. The award of just satisfaction is not an automatic consequence of a finding by the European Court of Human Rights that there has been a violation of a right guaranteed by the European Convention…
CASE OF MYASNIK MALKHASYAN v. ARMENIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 49020/08
. The case concerns the applicant’s arrest and pre-trial detention, including whether his deprivation of liberty was based on a reasonable suspicion that he had committed an offence as required by Article 5 § 1 (c) of the Convention, and whether his continued detention…
CASE OF KARAPETYAN v. GEORGIA (European Court of Human Rights) Application no. 61233/12
. The present case concerns the applicant’s complaint that the sanction of confiscation applied in respect of all the money which she had been transporting through Georgia in violation of her duty to declare it to the customs authorities had…