June 25, 2019 - European Convention of Human Rights

Romania: Human rights failings lead judges to make €21,500 award

Human rights failings uncovered in an investigation into a police identity check, which left a man with injuries, have led Strasbourg judges to make a €21,500 award against Romania.

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June 6, 2019 - European Convention of Human Rights

France: Judges make €30,000 award to financial analyst after double prosecution, double conviction rights breach

The case concerned the right not to be tried or punished twice (ne bis in idem). The applicant, Antoine Nodet, a financial analyst, was fined by the financial markets regulator, the AMF, for manipulation of a share price, and subsequently by criminal courts for the offence of obstructing the proper operation of the stock market by the same action.

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June 4, 2019 - European Convention of Human Rights

Turkey: Wronged teacher wins human rights court backing

The case concerned the refusal by the Ministry of Education to appoint Abdullah Yılmaz to a teaching post abroad even though he had passed a competitive examination.

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June 4, 2019 - European Convention of Human Rights

Court: Lithuanian law prohibiting professional medical assistance for home births did not breach mothers’ rights

The case concerned Lithuania’s law on medical assistance for home births. The applicants, four women, had unsuccessfully requested that the Ministry of Health amend the legislation that prohibited medical professionals from assisting in home births.

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June 3, 2019 - European Convention of Human Rights

Turkey: Court gives notice of 546 applications following July 2016 attempted coup d’état

The applications concern, in particular, the provisional detention of members of the legal service following the attempted coup d’état of 15 July 2016.

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