Judgment concerning Hungary
In the case of Validity Foundation on behalf of T.J. v. Hungary the Court held that there had been two violations of the right to life/investigation.
The case concerned the death of a woman with a severe intellectual disability in a State-run social-care home and the ensuing investigation into the allegation that she had died of neglect.
The Court noted that understaffing, insufficient medical and therapeutic care, inappropriate living conditions and excessive use of restraining measures against residents had already been recorded at this care home. At least ten residents had died at the home that year. The authorities had therefore been aware of the alarming conditions before she died. Their response, however, both in terms of preventing the deterioration in her health and her untimely death as well as in terms of the ensuing investigation had been inadequate.