Saturday 27 April 2013

ECtHR case-law weekly brief (21-25 Jan 2013)


Investigation into suicide while serving prison sentence (no violation of 2 in Mitiç v. SER)

Lack of effective investigation into alleged ill-treatment and abduction by State officials of a man in Chechnya (violation of 3 in Suleymanov v. RU)

Placement in a social care institution for several years without review (violation of 5 §§ 1,4 in Mihailovs v. LVA)

Maintenance of status as an incapacitated person and detention in psychiatric hospital, both without possibility of review (violation of 5 §§ 1, 4 and 8 in Lashin v. RU)

Foreseeability of domestic law for punishment in drug-trafficking cases (violation of 7 in Camilleri v. MLT)

Conviction for use of unofficial languages during election campaign (Şükran Aydin and Others v. TUR)

Defamation proceedings followed by sanctions for articles criticising State officials’ conduct (violation of 10 in OOO Ivpress and Others v. RU)

Repetitive cases – non-enforcement of domestic court judgments (BIH), expropriation proceedings (IT), length of pre-trial detention (POL),  length of proceedings (BGR, GR, HUN, POL, TUR), fair trial – notification of appeal hearing (RU), disqualification measures following bankruptcy (IT)

Court’s related press-releases:

http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/pages/search.aspx?i=003-4229866-5027273
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/pages/search.aspx?i=003-4231003-5029172
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/pages/search.aspx?i=003-4230191-5027763
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/pages/search.aspx?i=003-4229801-5027201
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/pages/search.aspx?i=003-4230137-5027695

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