Grand Chamber hearing concerning Germany
01/03/2023
The Court held a Grand Chamber hearing in the case of Humpert and Others v. Germany.
The case concerns the sanctions imposed on the applicants, teachers with civil-servant status, for going on strike in order to improve their working conditions.
Due to the interruption of the international postal services to and from the Russian Federation and where the only means of delivery of the Court’s decisions and judgments to the applicants is by post, the Court has exceptionally decided to notify the applicants about decisions and judgments adopted by its Chamber and Committee judicial formations after 1 March 2022 in respect of applications against the Russian Federation only via its HUDOC database.
As announced in the Court’s press release of 29 August 2022, as from 1 September 2022 the Court has returned in some aspects to the normal processing of applications involving Ukraine. Due to the interruption of the international postal services to and from Ukraine, the Court will communicate with applicants via its electronic communication system, eComms. For that purpose, the Court will use the email address provided by the applicants. Regarding specifically the notification of decisions and judgments, where no email address has been provided the Court has exceptionally decided to notify the applicants about decisions and judgments adopted by its Chamber and Committee judicial formations only via its HUDOC database. Decisions adopted by the Single Judge will be notified only to those applicants who have provided an email address. Prior to contacting the Court about the state of the proceedings in a case, applicants are encouraged to consult the Court’s State of Proceedings search tool for further information.
Grand Chamber
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Forthcoming delivery
02/03/2023
The Court will be delivering a Grand Chamber ruling in the case of L.B. v. Hungary on 9 March 2023.
In this case the applicant complains of the publication of his personal details on a list of tax defaulters on the tax authorities’ website. The details included his name, home address, tax identification number and the amount of unpaid tax which he owed.
The applicant alleges an infringement of his right to respect for private life. He contends that the main reason behind the Hungarian legislative policy of making personal data available was public shaming.
Webcast of the hearing (3/11/2021)
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Referral requests
27/02/2023On 6 March 2023 a panel of 5 judges will examine twelve Grand Chamber referral requests.
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Chamber
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Judgment concerning Cyprus
21/02/2023
In the case of G.K. v. Cyprus the Court held that there had been no violation of the right to respect for private and family life.
The case concerned the proceedings and a subsequent order by the Cypriot courts to return the applicant’s son to the United States of America under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
The Court found that the domestic courts had not automatically ordered the return of the child. They had considered all the arguments of the parties and rendered detailed decisions which, in their view, safeguarded the best interests of the child and ruled out any serious risk to him. As a whole, the applicant had not suffered a disproportionate interference with her right to respect for her family life.
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Judgment concerning the Republic of Moldova
21/02/2023
In the case of Catană v. the Republic of Moldova the Court held that there had been a violation of the right to a fair hearing.
The case concerned disciplinary sanctions (“severe reprimands”) which were imposed on the applicant in respect of her conduct as a judge.
The Court held that the requirements of independence and impartiality had not been satisfied in the present case with regard to the composition of the National Judicial Service Commission (CSM) that had ruled in the applicant’s case. It found that the presence of a member of the government within a body empowered to impose disciplinary sanctions on judges was in itself highly problematic in terms of the requirement for the disciplinary body to be independent.
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Hearings
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Hearings in March
22/02/2023
In March 2023, the Court will be holding three Grand Chamber hearings.
The case Humpert and Others v. Germany concerns the sanctions imposed on the applicants, teachers with civil-servant status, for going on strike in order to improve their working conditions.
The applicants in the case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and others v. Switzerland, 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.
The case Carême v. France 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.
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Delivered Judgments & Decisions
Forthcoming Judgments & Decisions
07-09/03/2023