New and Updated Case-Law Factsheets

The case-law factsheets of the Court have been updated and extended. In addition, translations in French, Russian, German, Polish, and Turkish are available on the Court’s website. Please find a list below of those factsheets which have been updated in the past half year (arranged per theme, so some pop up under two different headings):

CHILDREN AND PARENTS

– protection of minors (March 2013)
– children’s rights (February 2013)
– parental rights (March 2013)
– reproductive rights (January 2013)

CRIMINAL FIELD

– terrorism (December 2012)
– violence against women (October 2012)

DATA

– Protection of personal data (January 2013)
– New technologies (March 2013)

DISCRIMINATION

– Gender identity issues (October 2012)
– Homosexuality: criminal aspects (October 2012)
– Roma and travellers (January 2013)
– Sexual orientation issues (February 2013)

EUROPEAN UNION

– Case-law concerning the EU (January 2013)
– “Dublin” cases (October 2012)

EXPULSION

– Expulsions and extraditions (February 2013)
– Terrorism (December 2012)

HEALTH

– Detention and mental health (January 2013)
– Environment-related cases in the Court’s case-law (December 2012)
– Health (January 2013)
– Mental health (February 2013)
– Prisoners’ health rights (March 2013)
– Social welfare (January 2013)

LIFE

– Death penalty abolition (December 2012)
– Right to life (February 2013)

OPINIONS AND INFORMATION

– Freedom of religion (February 2013)
– Protection of journalistic sources (November 2012)
– Trade union rights (November 2012)

PRISON

– Detention and mental health (January 2013)
– Detention conditions and treatment of prisoners (January 2013)
– Prisoners’ health rights (March 2013)

WORK AND BUSINESS

– Forced labour and trafficking (November 2012)
– Taxation and the ECHR (January 2013)
– Trade union rights (November 2012)
– Work-related rights (February 2013)

OTHER FACTSHEETS

– extra-territorial jurisdiction of ECHR Member States (October 2012) (Note: This should be “state parties” rather than member states of course, but this is how the Court calls it on its own website, strangely!)
– Interim measures (January 2013)
– Pilot judgments (January 2013)
– Use of international conventions by the ECtHR (November 2012)

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