SECOND SECTION CASE OF ČERNIUS AND RINKEVIČIUS v. LITHUANIA (Applications nos. 73579/17 and 14620/18) JUDGMENT Art 6 (civil) • Access to court • Individual and excessive burden on applicants as a result of domestic courts’ refusal to reimburse legal costs…
CASE OF KUNGUROV v. RUSSIA (European Court of Human Rights)
THIRD SECTION CASE OF KUNGUROV v. RUSSIA (Application no. 70468/17) JUDGMENT Art 8 • Respect for family life • Arbitrary refusal of family visits in remand prison • Domesticlawconferringunrestricteddiscretiontoauthoritiestograntorrefuseprisonvisits Art 13 (+8) • Effective remedy • Applications for prison visits…
CASE OF CINTIA V. ROMANIA (European Court of Human Rights)
FOURTH SECTION CASE OF CÎNȚA v. ROMANIA (Application no. 3891/19) JUDGMENT Article 8 • Respect for family life • Restriction on applicant’s contact rights based on his mental disorder, without assessing the latter’s impact on his caring skills or child’s…
CASE OF JIDIC v. ROMANIA (European Court of Human Rights)
FOURTH SECTION CASE OF JIDIC v. ROMANIA (Application no. 45776/16) JUDGMENT Art 7 • Heavier penalty • New law opening possibility of a more lenient sentence under certain conditions not found by domestic courts to have been met in applicant’s…
CASE OF JAFARZADE v. AZERBAIJAN (European Court of Human Rights)
FIFTH SECTION CASE OF JAFARZADE v. AZERBAIJAN (Application no. 2515/11) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 20 February 2020 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Jafarzade v. Azerbaijan, The European Court of Human Rights…
CASE OF GURBANOVA AND PASHAYEVA v. AZERBAIJAN (European Court of Human Rights)
FIFTH SECTION CASE OF GURBANOVA AND PASHAYEVA v. AZERBAIJAN (Application no. 26553/08) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 20 February 2020 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Gurbanova and Pashayeva v. Azerbaijan, The European…
CASE OF ZELCS v. LATVIA (European Court of Human Rights)
FIFTH SECTION CASE OF ZELČS v. LATVIA (Application no. 65367/16) JUDGMENT Art 5 § 1 • Deprivation of liberty • Administrative detention in police car for less than two hours with a view to drawing up an administrative-offence report •…
CASE OF Y v. BULGARIA (European Court of Human Rights)
FIFTH SECTION CASE OF Y v. BULGARIA (Application no. 41990/18) JUDGMENT Art 3 and Art 8 • Positive obligations • Lack of effective investigation into allegations of rape • Failure to properly pursue an obvious line of inquiry resulting from…
CASE OF KREBS v. GERMANY (European Court of Human Rights)
FIFTH SECTION CASE OF KREBS v. GERMANY (Application no. 68556/13) JUDGMENT Art 6 § 2 • Presumption of innocence • Court’s refusal to suspend sentence on probation, motivated by unambiguous declaration of applicant’s guilt in respect of further offences that…
CASE OF NASIROV AND OTHERS v. AZERBAIJAN (European Court of Human Rights)
FIFTH SECTION CASE OF NASIROV AND OTHERS v. AZERBAIJAN (Application no. 58717/10) JUDGMENT Art 5 § 1 • Liberty of person • Applicants escorted to police station and retained there for several hours • Unrecorded, arbitrary and unjustified detention •…