Cases

Question 1

Right to life : art. 2

Answer 1

1. Vo v. France: case about forced abortion
2. McCann v. UK: case about IRA terrorist
3. Öneryildiz v. Turkey: case about the explosion
4. Opuz v. Turkey: domestic abuse
5. Lambert v. France: case about man in vegetative state

Question 2

Prohibition of torture: art. 3

Answer 2

1. Selmouni v. France: torture by agents
2. Bouyid v. Belgium: slap in the face
3. MSS v. Belgium & Greece: inhuman treatment in Greece
4. Soering v. UK: not allowed to transfer to US because of risk death penalty
5. El Masri v. Macedonia: secret rendition
6. Opuz v. Turkey: domestic abuse

Question 3

Right to a fair trial: art. 6

Answer 3

1. Golder v. UK: prisoner who wanted to bring case
2. Salduz v. Turkey: mandatory access to a lawyer
3. Beuze v. Belgium: look at the overall fairness of a trial

Question 4

Right privacy: art. 8

Answer 4

1. A, B and C v. Ireland: the abortion case
2. S and Marper v. UK: the DNA and fingerprints
3. Von Hannover v. Germany: right to privacy violated because did not reflect public interest
4. X and Y v. Netherlands: case where there was a mentally disabled girl raped and she had to file her own complaint = violation of art. 8.
5. Christine Goodwin vs. UK: transgender case

Question 5

Freedom of expression: art. 10:

Answer 5

1. Axel Springer AG v. Germany: right of expression was violated because he did not exceed the limits of journalistic freedom
2. Perincek v. Switserland: publicly denying the Armenian genocide: Grand Chamber upheld the freedom of speech
3. Sattelite case v. Sweden: right to information

Question 6

6. Right of property: art. 1 Protocol 1

Answer 6

1. Kopecky v. Slovakia: violation
2. Stec v. UK: discrimination between pensions men and women
3. Hutten-Czapska v. Poland: rent in Poland

Question 7

Equality and non-discrimination: art. 14:

Answer 7

1. Broeks vs. Netherlands: Human Rights Committee: discrimination
2. Chapman v. UK: Gypsy woman, no violation

Question 8

Eskelin v. Finland

Answer 8

Violation of art. 6 because it was a civil servant and they could not use art. 6

In a judgment handed down on 19 April 2007, the Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights considered the scope of the right to a fair hearing in the context of civil proceedings, with particular reference to the acceptable length of proceedings and the necessity of an oral hearing.