Hearing concerning France
29/03/2023
The Court held a Grand Chamber hearing in the case of Carême v. France.
The case concerns a complaint by an inhabitant and former mayor of the municipality of Grande-Synthe, who submits that France has taken insufficient steps to prevent climate change and that this failure entails a violation of the right to life and the right to respect for private and family life.
Hearing concerning Switzerland
29/03/2023
The Court held a Grand Chamber hearing in the case of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and others v. Switzerland.
The applicants in this case, a Swiss association and its members, complain that the State has failed to introduce suitable legislation and to put appropriate and sufficient measures in place to attain the targets for combating climate change.
Chamber
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Judgment concerning Hungary
30/03/2023
In the case of Szolcsán v. Hungary the Court held that there had been a violation of the prohibition of discrimination taken in conjunction with the right to education.
The case concerned the applicant’s education in a primary school that was almost exclusively attended by Roma children. His request to be transferred to another school in a neighbouring town was rejected because he did not live in the school’s catchment area.
The Court found that the fact that his school was almost exclusively attended by Roma children amounted to segregation and reiterated that the education of Roma children in segregated classes or schools without taking adequate measures to correct inequalities was incompatible with the State’s duty not to discriminate based on race or ethnicity.
Factsheet: Roma and Travellers
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Judgment concerning Italy
30/03/2023
In the case of J.A. and Others v. Italy the Court held that there had been a violation of the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment, of the right to liberty and security and of the prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens.
The case concerned the applicants’ presence at the “hotspot” on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where they had been taken having been rescued by an Italian ship in the Mediterranean Sea, and their later removal to Tunisia.
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Grand Chamber
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Referral requests
27/03/2023On 3 April 2023 a panel of 5 judges will examine eleven Grand Chamber referral requests.
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New procedural steps in Crimea inter-State case
22/03/2023The ECHR has taken further decisions regarding the next procedural steps in the inter-State case Ukraine v. Russia (Crimea) concerning Ukraine’s allegations of a pattern (“administrative practice”) of violations of the European Convention by the Russian Federation in Crimea beginning in February 2014.
After completion of the written procedure, the Court has informed the parties that it would serve the interests of the proper administration of justice that the Court hold a hearing on the admissibility and merits in the case, and has provisionally scheduled this to be held on 8 November 2023.
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Events
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René Cassin competition 2023
24/03/2023
Students from the University of Strasbourg have been declared the winners of the 2023 René Cassin advocacy competition for law students after beating a rival team from the University of Paris-Saclay.
The final round of the 38th René Cassin competition in French took place at the Court on 24 March 2023 before the jury made up of judges of the ECHR, lawyers, academics and representatives of the competition’s partner institutions. It was chaired by Mr Christophe Soulard, First President of the French Court of Cassation.
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Delivered Judgments & Decisions
Forthcoming Judgments & Decisions
04-06/04/2023