Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life

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Manjani v. Albania, no. 32283/23

10/03/26

Refusal of the applicant’s admission to the School of Magistrates for training as a prosecutor due to a juvenile theft conviction for which he had been legally rehabilitated.
Judgment

Advisory Opinion on the status of monastic premises and the jurisdiction of the courts to examine a dispute concerning them [GC], no. P16-2025-001

05/03/26

Request of Ukraine’s Supreme Court for an Advisory Opinion in the context of a former nun claiming the right to live in a convent owned by the monastery which she had left on account of a conflict with the leaders of the relevant religious organisation.
Advisory Opinion | Legal Summary

Simoncini v. San Marino, no. 14396/24

19/02/26

Administrative proceedings concerning the annulment, on the basis of a retroactive law, of the applicant’s appointment as a first-instance judge due to the irregular composition of the Judicial Council which had appointed him.
Judgment

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