Compulsory committal of the applicant to a psychiatric hospital, approved by a court after a hearing held via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and without an in-person examination by a court-appointed doctor.
Judgment

Criminal conviction of an intellectually disabled person based on pre-trial statements made in the absence of a lawyer and interpreted as a waiver of his right to be represented, causing non-pecuniary damage in the form of distress and frustration.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Alleged failure of the authorities to provide the disabled applicant with reasonable accommodation in the form of support measures to assist him in taking care of his daughter, which resulted in his being deprived of custody.
Judgment

Involuntary detention and treatment of an elderly woman with dementia in a psychiatric hospital for six days.
Judgment

Alleged labour exploitation and sexual abuse of the applicant, a woman with intellectual disabilities, after her removal from State care and placement with a family on a farm, against the background of a general institutional passivity and/or lack of awareness of the phenomenon of violence against women with disabilities in the respondent State.
Judgment

Death in detention, allegedly by suicide, of the applicant’s son who had been suffering from mental health issues.
Judgment

Guardianship proceedings in which the first applicant’s brother, rather than the first applicant, was appointed as the guardian of their mother (the second applicant), who had previously indicated, by a notarized act, that she wanted the first applicant to take care of her personal affairs and bank accounts.
Judgment

De facto involuntary stay and treatment in a psychiatric hospital under inhuman and degrading material conditions, and ineffective and discriminatory investigation thereof.
Judgment

Inability of the applicant, declared totally incapacitated owing to her mental illness, to bring a court action aimed at restoring her legal capacity.
Judgment

Reasonable accommodation of an autistic child’s special needs in primary school.
Judgment

Ineffective investigation into rape of applicant suffering from intellectual and physical disabilities.
Judgment

Alleged discrimination against Russian-speaking children with special needs as regards the use of State language in pre-school education.
Judgment

Death in prison of a drug-addicted prisoner as a result of intoxication by prescribed and non-prescribed drugs.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Criminal proceedings against the applicant resulting in her committal to a psychiatric facility.
Judgment

Involuntary placement in a psychiatric hospital and psychiatric treatment of a 15-year-old orphaned child with a mild intellectual disability.
Judgment

Withdrawal of the provision of a State-funded personal assistant for a physically disabled individual resulting in a severe loss of autonomy.
Judgment

Validity of a waiver of the right to a lawyer signed by a person addicted to drugs and suffering from withdrawal symptoms.
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Indication to take general measures due to structural issues arising in the context of the enforcement of preventive detention measures in prison facilities, in order to secure appropriate living conditions and the provision of suitable and individualised forms of therapy to mentally ill persons.
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Respondent State’s failures due to a psychiatric hospital patient dying following his repeated tasing by the police and the administration of a tranquiliser by a nurse.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Placement of the applicant under guardianship, following a procedure which concluded that she suffered from a mental disorder hindering her legal capacity.
Judgment

Legal-protection measure imposed on an elderly person and his placement in nursing home in social isolation for three years.
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Primary school’s response to aggressive and disruptive behaviour of a child with developmental disorder.
Judgment | Legal Summary

​Expense cap for the care of a person with serious disabilities at home.
Decision | Legal Summary

Forced abortions and birth-control measures carried out on intellectually disabled women residents in a psychiatric asylum.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Father’s contact with incapacitated adult son. Applicability and merits.
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Conditions of confinement at a psychoneurological residential institution of a vulnerable person with mental disorder. 
Judgment

Conviction and fine for unauthorised cannabis production for personal treatment of chronic pain.
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Heightened protection required for participation of mentally ill persons in clinical trials, with particularly strong safeguards.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Lack of wheelchair access to two public buildings. Applicability and merits.
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Refusal to award a person with mental disorder the costs of their successful constitutional complaint.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Continued detention of visually impaired convicted prisoner.  
Judgment

Special-needs prisoner's medical care and length of the examination of his request for a licence for prison leave on health grounds.
Judgment

Disappearance of an 18-year-old woman with schizophrenia and suicidal tendencies. Applicability and merits.
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National law requiring written consent before a surgical operation; medical procedures that resulted in a significant deterioration in the applicant’s physical and neurological health.
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​Loss of the right to vote due to partial guardianship order.
Judgment | Legal Summary

No personal assistant for an old disabled applicant.
Judgment

No compensation for a child born disabled as a result of a fault during the prenatal diagnosis, through retrospective application of the law. Applicability and merits.
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Different legal treatment for people with disabilities in the world of sports.
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Detention for two years in an ordinary prison of an applicant suffering from psychiatric disorders.
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Applicability: deportation of a seriously ill alien and the necessity of the Paposhvili threshold test.
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Applicant’s full legal incapacitation and change of legal guardian.
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Additional preventive detention after having served final conviction in ordinary prison of a mentally ill serious offender.
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Voting procedure for disabled voters.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Serious mental injuries detected after long captivity, allegedly due to ill-treatment during detention.
Judgment

The defence rights of an accused with slight intellectual disability.
Judgment

Compulsory confinement of offenders with mental disorders (Article 5 § 1 (e) and Article 5 § 4) and the adoption of a new law.
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​Placement under protective supervision of an elderly and vulnerable person on the grounds of "extravagant spending". Interpretation of national law by reference to a foreign former law.​​​
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Judicial disenfranchisement of applicant's daughter with intellectual disability.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Detention in a maximum security prison of a detainee with permanent disability and history of self-aggression.
Judgment

Psychiatric internment on the basis of case file documents, the applicant refusing to undergo an expert evaluation. Hearings in camera.
Judgment