Judgment concerning Romania
21/05/2019
In the case of O.C.I. and Others v. Romania the Court held that there had been a violation of the right to respect for private and family life.
The Court found that the Romanian courts had failed to give enough consideration to the grave risk of the applicant children being subjected to domestic violence when ordering their return to their father in Italy, which was one of the exceptions to the principle under international law that children should be returned to their habitual place of residence.
Chamber
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Judgment concerning Poland
23/05/2019In the case of Kanciał v. Poland the Court held that there had been several violations of the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment.
The case concerned the applicant’s allegations of police brutality during a raid by law-enforcement officers, in particular the use of an electrical discharge weapon.
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Judgment concerning France
23/05/2019In the case of Chebab v. France, the Court found a violation of the right to life on account of an investigation into the circumstances under which the applicant had been injured by a bullet fired by a police officer when he was being arrested in March 2000.
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Judgment concerning Greece
23/05/2019In the case of Sine Tsaggarakis A.E.E. v. Greece, the Court found a violation of the right to a fair trial on account of legal uncertainty resulting from conflicting decisions taken by the Greek Supreme Administrative Court.
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Judgment concerning Belgium
21/05/2019In the case of G.K. v. Belgium, the Court has found a violation of the right to free elections.
The applicant had submitted that she had been coerced into resigning as a senator, but had then attempted to retract her resignation. Meanwhile, however, she had been deprived of her seat, as the Senate had officially accepted her resignation and validated her successor’s credentials.
The Court found that the applicant’s resignation had been accepted by the Senate in the absence of any procedural safeguards against arbitrariness, which had infringed the very essence of her rights as secured under the Convention.
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Interim measures
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Interim measures refused
20/05/2019In the case of Lambert and Others v. France, the Court has decided to reject the request for interim measures submitted on 20 May 2019 by Vincent Lambert’s father, mother, half-brother and sister.
Vincent Lambert’s relatives asked the Court to indicate to the French State the immediate application of the interim measures demanded of France by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) on 3 May 2019.
Vincent Lambert, who was left tetraplegic after a road accident in 2008, is in a condition described as vegetative.
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Interim measures granted
20/05/2019The Court has decided to apply an urgent measure in the case P.H. and Others v. Italy concerning three Bosnian citizens of Roma ethnicity who were evicted with their minor children from a settlement in Ponte Riccio in April of this year.
The Court asked the Italian Government to provide temporary accommodation for the minors involved and their parents, without separating them.
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Grand Chamber
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Forthcoming judgments
23/05/2019On 29 May 2019 the Court will deliver its Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Ilgar Mammadov v. Azerbaijan, the first judgment to be delivered in the framework of the infringement procedure provided for in the Convention.
The case originated in a question submitted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which is responsible for supervising the execution of judgments, to the Cour as to whether Azerbaijan had failed to fulfil its obligation to comply with the Court’s 2014 judgment in the case of the political activist Ilgar Mammadov.
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Hearings
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Hearing concerning Croatia
15/05/2019
The Court held a Grand Chamber hearing in the case of S.M. v. Croatia on 15 May 2019.
The applicant, a Croatian national, complained that she had been forced to prostitute herself for several months.
She alleged that the authorities had failed to respond appropriately to her complaint and submitted that there was no legal framework in Croatia for dealing with the issues raised by her case.
Press release Webcast of the hearing
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Other information
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CM meeting in Helsinki
21/05/2019
President Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos and the Registrar of the Court, Roderick Liddell, attended the annual meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the 47 member States of the Council of Europe in Helsinki on 16 and 17 May 2019.
A Declaration was adopted at the end of the meeting.
Speech by President Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos (in French only)
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Facts and Figures by State
17/05/2019
To mark the French Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the Court has produced a new publication: The ECHR and France in Facts and Figures. It is part of a series which provides a global overview of the Court’s work and the extent to which its judgments have an impact in each member State.
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Delivered Judgments & Decisions
Forthcoming Judgments & Decisions
28/05/2019