Year: 2009
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Article 6 Grand Chamber Judgment
Ms Anthi Gorou must no doubt be one of the most active and successful complainants in Strasbourg. Today, the Grand Chamber of Court issued its judgment in Gorou v. Greece (No. 2), reaching the same outcome as a Chamber of the Court had earlier done…
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Cinderella and Article 14 ECHR
Rory O’Connell of Queen’s University Belfast has posted an article on the evolving role of the non-discrimination principle in the ECHR, which will appear in the forthcoming issue (2009, No. 2) of the journal Legal Studies. It is entitled ‘Cinderella Comes to the Ball: Article…
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New Articles EHRLR
The newest issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (No. 1 of 2009) contains two Articles which directly deal with the ECHR. The first is a contribution by Tamar Feldman, entitled ‘Indirect Victims, Direct Injury: Recognising Relatives as Victims under the European Human Rights…
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Religion and Exemptions to Military Service
Two Jehovah’s Witnesses won their respective cases last week in Strasbourg. In the judgments Gütl v. Austria and Löffelmann v. Austria, the operative parts of which are largely the same, the Court unanimously found a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) in conjunction with…
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ECHR Conference in Copenhagen
On 21 and 22 March the University of Copenhagen will be hosting a symposium entitled ‘A Unique European Institution. The European Court of Human Rights after 50 Years’. Amongst others, the following themes will be addressed: the political context in which the Court is functioning;…
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Grand Chamber Judgment in Prisoner’s Case
Today the Grand Chamber issued its judgment in the case of Paladi v. Moldova. In 2007, the Fourth Section of the Court had already decided in the same case. At the request of the Government, the case was referred to the Grand Chamber, but as…
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(Not) Being Informed of HIV/AIDS
For health law afficionados, I can recommend yesterday’s Court judgment in the case of Colak and Tsakiridis v. Germany. Ms Colak complained about the fact that she had not been informed by her doctor that her partner was suffering from AIDS (a fact the partner…
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EU & ECHR: Uneasy Neighbours?
If the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty will ever enter into force, the European Union will be able to accede to the European Convention of Human Rights. That would be a new chapter in the continuously debated relation between the Courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg. The…
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Education Rights Violation in Turkish University
Today the Court found a violation of the right to education of university students in Turkey in the case of Temel and others v. Turkey. In 2001 and 2002 a group of 18 studnets had petioned their university, Afyon Kocatepe University (see photo), requesting the…
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Judgment on Dismissal of Judge
Last week, the Court issued its judgment in the case of Kudeshkina v. Russia. With a very narrow margin of four votes against three it found that the Russian Federation had violated the freedom of expression (Article 10 ECHR) by dismissing a Moscow City Court…