Article 35: applicant’s decision to lodge the application with the Court while the proceedings were still pending before the competent supervisory court was justified due to the uncertainty as to whether his case would be considered promptly in view of suspensions and delays at that court at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Judgment

Article 34: State’s failure to comply with initial interim measures and excessively long delays in complying with modified interim measures.
Judgment

Article 34: standing of a non-governmental organisation to lodge an application on behalf of a person with a severe intellectual disability who died in a State-run social care home.
Judgment

Article 57: reservation made by Portugal concerning Article 4 of Protocol No. 7 invalid because the requirement of Article 57 § 2 has not been met (i.e. reservation lacks brief statement of the law concerned).
Judgment

Article 35: neither the fact that the applicants lived outside France nor the fact that they had not freely chosen to come under the respondent State’s jurisdiction exempted them from their duty to exhaust the available and presumably effective domestic remedies in France.
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Article 35: application tainted by the applicants’ manipulation, through bribes, of the domestic justice system. Abuse of the right of application.
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Article 35: exhaustion of domestic remedies where the relevant administrative court had made a clear procedural error for which the applicant could not be reproached.
Judgment

Article 35: Court’s jurisdiction ratione temporis with respect to acts or omissions of a respondent State that has ceased to be a Contracting Party to the Convention.
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Article 35: delay of more than two weeks to dispatch the application to the Court afresh after becoming aware of a problem with postal services.
Decision

Article 35: respondent State estopped from raising plea of non-exhaustion in view of failure to raise preliminary objection in initial observations.
Judgment

Article 34: applicant trust sufficiently affected by a confiscation order despite it not being enforced yet.
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Article 35: exhaustion of domestic remedies on the basis of a general provision providing a judicial remedy but in the absence of domestic case-law to that effect.
Judgment

Article 34: lack of sufficient action to mitigate climate change – the victim status of an individual.
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Article 35: exhaustion of domestic remedies in the context of climate change.
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Article 34: lack of sufficient action to mitigate effects of climate change - locus standi of an association of older women concerned about the consequences of global warming and victim status of four individual women.
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Article 35: first application of the “no-significant disadvantage” criterion with respect to Article 11.
Decision

Article 35: application of the six-month rule to reopened criminal proceedings.
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Article 35: failure to lodge a civil claim to obtain redress for an alleged breach of the presumption of innocence by public officials’ statements. Exhaustion of domestic remedies.
Judgment

Article 34 and 35 § 1: unjustified abandonment by the applicant association of an application for holding a public event in view of a Covid-19 related ban; victim status and compliance with the exhaustion requirement.
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Article 34: existence of exceptional circumstances allowing applicants to lodge the application, without written authority, in the name and on behalf of their vulnerable son, with mental health issues and in detention. Locus standi.
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Article 34: lack of exceptional circumstances allowing applicants to lodge the application in the name and on behalf of their partners without written authority. Locus standi.
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Article 34: victim status retained but matter resolved following the annulment of the applicants' criminal convictions, their acquittal and compensation.
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Article 34: locus standi of a relative to act on behalf of an elderly person under legal protection.
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Article 35: scope of "the rights and responsibilities of a private law character" for the purpose of the applicability of Article 5 of Protocol No. 7. Compatibility ratione materiae.
Decision

Article 35: Inter-state arbitration proceedings under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea do not constitute "another procedure of international investigation or settlement".
Judgment

Article 34: applicant suffering directly from the consequences of the legal provision at stake by the mere fact that she belonged to the category of divorced women likely to remarry. Victim status.
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Article 34: acknowledgment of a responsibility and ex gratia awards made to the applicants for the killing of their relative by a non-State actor. Loss of victim status.
Decision

Article 37: examination of the case despite the applicant's lack of contact with her representative.
Judgment

Article 35: dies a quo in the context of a recusal request. Six-months.
Judgment

Article 35: limits of the Court’s jurisdiction with respect to acts or omissions spanning across the date on which a respondent State ceased to be a Party to the Convention.
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Article 35: access to court and the requirement to exhaust domestic remedies.
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Articles 34 and 35: distinction between complaints and secondary arguments and the consequent delimiting of the Court’s ability to recharacterise a complaint.
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Article 34: in abstracto complaints without convincing evidence that applicants at real risk of being directly affected by amendments effectively banning access to legal abortion on foetal malformation grounds. Victim status.
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Article 35: unjustified fragmentation of domestic enforcement proceedings, multiplying awards of legal fees to lawyer applicants and extending length of proceedings. Abuse of the right of application.
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​Article 34: locus standi of the Chief Rabbinate despite lack of legal personality.
Judgment

Article 35: new compensatory remedy for the protractedness of civil proceedings considered effective and requiring exhaustion.
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​Article 35: six months’ time-limit assessed taking into account the applicants’ vulnerability.
Judgment

​Article 34: locus standi of a public broadcaster.
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Article 38: expiration of domestic statutory time-limit for storage of materials not constituting a reasonable explanation for the failure to comply with the Court’s request to provide documents.
Judgment

Article 34: annulment of a judge's dismissal and reinstatement in his post. Loss of victim status.
Decision

Article 35: relevance of non-domestic remedies in an inter-State case for the purposes of the application of the six-month rule.
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Article 34: locus standi of editor-in-chief who was not party to the proceedings against newspaper.
Judgment

Article 34: trade union’s victim status to complain about dismissal of its member.
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Article 35: the rule of confidentiality, provocative statements within acceptable limits and degree of tolerance under Article 35 § 3 (a). Abuse of the right of petition.
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Protocol No. 15: date of adoption of the final decision determines time-limit (six or four months) to lodge application before the Court.
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Article 35: ban on burying sons abroad. Compatibility ratione materiae (Article 8 “private life" and "family").
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Article 34: surviving husband, albeit the victim of the crime, with legitimate interest in the circumstances in pursuing application in late wife’s stead. Locus standi.  
Judgment

Article 35: applicants not absolved from the obligation to exhaust domestic remedies by virtue of the proceedings brought by the first applicant.
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Article 35: applicants absolved from the obligation to exhaust domestic remedies by virtue of the appeal brought by the other applicants.
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Article 35: multiple applicants and exhaustion of domestic remedies by only some of them.
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