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European Court of Human Rights : Satakunnan Markkinapörssi Oy and Satamedia Oy v. Finland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Grand Chamber judgment of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) finds that a prohibition issued by the Finnish Data Protection Board that prohibited two media companies from publishing personal taxation data in the manner and to the extent they had ...
Voorhoof, Dirk
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Blog symposium 'Strasbourg Observers turns ten' (2) : the Court’s subtle approach of online media platforms’ liability for user-generated content since the ‘Delfi Oracle’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This blog post, nearly five years after the final Delfi judgment (ECtHR Grand Chamber 16 June 2015), focusses on the impact of the Delfi case and gives a short overview of the further developments in the Court’s case law determining the scope of ...
Voorhoof, Dirk
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Do Human Rights Work? Evidence From Prison Death Investigations in Scotland

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 64-76, March 2026.
ABSTRACT It seems self‐evident that countries which have embraced human rights would have better human rights compliance. This article examines this assumption in prison death investigations in Scotland (called fatal accident inquiries or FAIs). The right to life (Article 2 ECHR) includes a procedural right to an effective investigation of deaths ...
Sarah Armstrong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE RIGHT TO A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT. INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF A HUMAN RIGHT TO A CLEAN ENVIRONEMENT BY ECTHR JURISPRUDENCE [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2015
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) does not specifically recognize a right to a clean environment, nor speaks specifically about environmental issues.
Oana Maria HANCIU
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Anti-Discrimination Exceptionalism: Racist Violence before the ECtHR and the Holocaust Prism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Over the past years, the European Court of Human Rights has significantly developed and strengthened its Article 14 non-discrimination jurisprudence, including in a number of ground-breaking international law cases establishing increased state ...
Möschel, Mathias, Rubio-Marín, Ruth
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‘There Is No Such Thing’—Meaningful Human Contact in Prison Under International Law

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 52-63, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the notion of ‘meaningful human contact’ as expressed in the Mandela Rules 2015 (United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners—SMRs) through fieldwork carried out in Scottish prisons via a letter‐writing project.
Deborah Russo
wiley   +1 more source

“Access Denied” – Interpreting the Digital Divide by Examining the Right of Prisoners to Access the Internet in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics
The present paper aims to investigate prisoners’ rights to use and access the Internet, focusing on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Lendvai Gergely Ferenc   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Legal opinion/expert report in the case of Rocio San Miguel Sosa and others v. Venezuela, case nr. 12.923, on request of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights : Expert report in the case of Rocio San Miguel Sosa and others v. Venezuela [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
First the report examines the preliminary question whether signing a statement or a petition in a political context, such as a petition to carry out a recall referendum on the term of office of a head of state, is to be considered as an act of exercising
Voorhoof, Dirk
core   +1 more source

Poland’s Judicial Reform Before the European Courts: What Makes a Court a Non-Majoritarian Institution?

open access: yesEuropean Papers
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2026 11(1), 419-441 | Article | (Table of Contents) 1. Introduction. – 2. Situating judicial reform in Poland in a broader context. – 3.
Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka
doaj   +1 more source

Website Operators’ Liability for Offensive Comments: A Comparative Analysis of Delfi as v. Estonia and MTE & Index v. Hungary

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2017
In 2013 and 2015, the ECtHR in the famous case of Delfi AS v. Estonia recognised the possibility for a website operator to be liable for the delayed removal of illegal comments of internet users.
Šidlauskienė Jūratė   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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