ECHR / EU
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Cases selected for updating the Case-Law Guide.
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
Veres v. Spain, no. 57906/18
Lack of diligence to recognise an interim measure ordering a child’s return to Hungary.
Judgment
Moraru v. Romania, no. 64480/19
Discrimination on grounds of height and weight to study military medecine.
Judgment | Legal Summary
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
Reczkowicz v. Poland, no. 43447/19
Grave irregularities in appointment of judges.
Judgment | Legal Summary
M.D. and A.D. v. France, no. 57035/18
Administrative detention of minors pending expulsion.
Judgment
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
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
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
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
Centrum för rättvisa v. Sweden [GC], no. 35252/08
Secret surveillance regime including bulk interception of communications and intelligence sharing.
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
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
Kurban v. Turkey, no. 75414/10
Evaluation of candidates for public procurement contracts.
Judgment | Legal Summary