ECHR / EU
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Cases selected for updating the Case-Law Guide.
Giannakopoulos v. Greece, no. 20503/20
Dismissal by the domestic courts of the applicant’s application for custody of his children for want of jurisdiction according to the Brussels II bis Regulation.
Judgment
Škoberne v. Slovenia, no. 19920/20
Retention of traffic and location data for different public interest purposes, accessed by law-enforcement authorities and used in criminal proceedings against the applicant.
Judgment
Executief van de Moslims van België and Others v. Belgium, nos. 16760/22 and 10 others
Obligation to stun animals prior to their ritual slaughter.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Associations of Communally-owned Forestry Proprietors 'Porceni Plesa' and 'Piciorul Batran Banciu' v. Romania, nos. 46201/16 and 47379/18
Lack of compensation for forest owners in relation to their inability to exploit their forests classified as protected natural areas, despite a right recognised by law.
Judgment
Wałęsa v. Poland, no. 50849/21
Reversal by the Supreme Court’s Chamber of Extraordinary Review and Public Affairs of a final civil defamation judgment in the applicant’s favour taken ten years earlier, following the Prosecutor General’s extraordinary appeal.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Georgiou v. Greece, no. 57378/18
Failure to examine the applicant's request for a referral to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling.
Judgment
Freire Lopes v. Portugal (dec.), no. 58598/21
Non-reimbursement to the applicant of shares sold to him by a subsequently liquidated bank.
Decision | Legal Summary
Moraru and Marin v. Romania, nos. 53282/18 and 31428/20
Gender discrimination in civil-service retirement ages.
Judgment
Rutar and Rutar Marketing d.o.o. v. Slovenia, no. 21164/20
Failure to provide reasons for dismissal of the request for a referral to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Spasov v. Romania, no. 27122/14
Conviction based on domestic-law provisions that were manifestly contrary to EU Regulations constituting denial of justice.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Moraru v. Romania, no. 64480/19
Discrimination on grounds of height and weight to study military medecine.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Veres v. Spain, no. 57906/18
Lack of diligence to recognise an interim measure ordering a child’s return to Hungary.
Judgment
Juszczyszyn v. Poland, no. 35599/20
Grave irregularities in appointment of judges to Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Chamber that suspended applicant from judicial duties.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Khasanov and Rakhmanov v. Russia [GC], no. 28492/15
Risk assessment in removal cases; reference to EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Grzęda v. Poland [GC], no. 43572/18
Premature termination of a judge's term of office as a member of the National Council of the Judiciary.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Advance Pharma sp. z o.o v. Poland, no. 1469/20
Manifest breaches in appointment of judges who examined applicant company’s civil appeal.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Ekimdzhiev and Others v. Bulgaria, no. 70078/12
Inadequate legal safeguards for secret surveillance, retention and access of communications data.
Judgment | Legal Summary
De Sousa v. Portugal (dec.), no. 28/17
Lawfulness of the applicant’s deprivation of liberty under European arrest warrant.
Decision
Biancardi v. Italy, no. 77419/16
Civil sanctioning of an editor for refusal to de-index an article on a criminal case.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Mucha v. Slovakia, no. 63703/19
Lack of impartiality of applicant's trial court which had also previously convicted his co-perpetrators.
Judgment
M.H. and Others v. Croatia, nos. 15670/18 and 43115/18
Alleged denial of opportunity to seek asylum and order to return to Serbia following train tracks.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Willems v. the Netherlands (dec.), no. 57294/16
Application of Bosphorus presumption. EU regulation on storage and use of biometric data to issue a passport.
Decision
Dolińska - Ficek and Ozimek v. Poland, nos. 49868/19 and 57511/19
Manifest breaches in appointment of judges to newly established Supreme Court’s Chamber.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Pintar and Others v. Slovenia, nos. 49969/14 and 4 others
National bank's extraordinary measures cancelling shares and bonds.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Galović v. Croatia, no. 45512/11
Several proceedings to punish individual acts and patterns of domestic violence.
Judgment | Legal Summary
M.D. and A.D. v. France, no. 57035/18
Administrative detention of minors pending expulsion.
Judgment
Reczkowicz v. Poland, no. 43447/19
Grave irregularities in appointment of judges.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Bio Farmland Betriebs S.R.L. v. Romania, no. 43639/17
Failure to provide reasons for the dismissal of the request for a referral to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling.
Judgment
Todorov and Others v. Bulgaria, nos. 50705/11 and 6 others
Forfeiture of crime proceeds.
Judgment | Legal Summary
M.A. v. Denmark [GC], no. 6697/18
Absence of European consensus on waiting period for family reunification of persons benefitting from subsidiary or temporary protection.
Judgment | Legal Summary
D.A. and Others v. Poland, no. 51246/17
Refusal of border guards to receive asylum applications and summary removal to a third country.
Judgment
Shahzad v. Hungary, no. 12625/17
Migrant’s push-back to a narrow strip of State territory on external side of a border fence.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Imeri v. Croatia, no. 77668/14
Confiscation at border-crossing of undeclared sum of foreign currency.
Judgment
R.B. v. Estonia, no. 22597/16
Protection of minor victims of sexual abuse.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Kurt v. Austria [GC], no. 62903/15
Child's murder by father accused of domestic violence.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) et Norwegian Transport Workers’ Union (NTF) v. Norway, no. 45487/17
Decision to declare unlawful announced trade union boycott.
Judgment | Legal Summary
J.L. v. Italy, no. 5671/16
State's positive obligations to combat sexual violence.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United-Kingdom [GC], nos. 58170/13 and 2 others
Secret surveillance regime including bulk interception of communications and intelligence sharing.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Centrum för rättvisa v. Sweden [GC], no. 35252/08
Secret surveillance regime including bulk interception of communications and intelligence sharing.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Xero Flor w Polsce sp. z o.o. v. Poland, no. 4907/18
Grave irregularities vitiating election of Constitutional Court judge.
Judgment | Legal Summary
K.I. v. France, no. 5560/19
Court not competent to apply EU law or examine compliance with EU law. Order for deportation to Russia of Chechen refugee after status revoked.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Vavřička and Others v. the Czech Republic [GC], nos. 47621/13 and 5 others
Refusal to comply with statutory child vaccination duty.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Bivolaru and Moldovan v. France, nos. 40324/16 and 12623/17
Bosphorus presumption rebutted where real risk of inadequate conditions of detention if applicant surrendered to Romania under a European arrest warrant.
Judgment | Legal Summary
R.R. and Others v. Hungary, no. 36037/17
De facto deprivation of liberty of asylum-seekers in transit zone at land border.
Judgment | Legal Summary
V.C.L. and A.N. v. the United-Kingdom, nos. 77587/12 and 74603/12
Absence of international or European consensus on prohibition to prosecute trafficking victims.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Xhoxhaj v. Albania, no. 15227/19
Bodies set up to vet serving judges and prosecutors to combat corruption.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Jurčić v. Croatia, no. 54711/15
Direct sex discrimination by refusing employment-related benefit to pregnant woman.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Antonopoulou v. Greece (dec.), no. 46505/19
Unfair clauses in contracts concluded with consumers.
Decision | Legal Summary
Shiksaitov v. Slovakia, nos. 56751/16 and 33762/17
Lawfulness of applicant's detention pending extradition to home country despite refugee status granted by another EU member State.
Judgment | Legal Summary
Guðmundur Andri Ástráðsson v. Iceland [GC], no. 26374/18
"Tribunal established by law" and participation of a judge whose appointment was vitiated.
Judgment | Legal Summary