Alapjogi jogesetek – a strasbourgi Emberi Jogok Európai Bírósága

Absztrakt

This case-law review will present some important decisions adopted by the European Court of Human Rights between 15 August and 15 November 2016. One of the cases against Hungary, concerning the right to access to State-held information, was heard directly by the Court’s Grand Chamber because it raised a serious question affecting the interpretation of the Convention. The Court further examined the amended rules of whole-life sentences in Hungary, as well as a case concerning the freedom of expression before Parliament and another concerning the protection of property.

As regards cases against other countries discussed in this paper, their subject-matters include, among others, the requirements concerning the conditions of detention, the distribution of the burden of proof in asylum proceedings, the conditions concerning the restriction of the access to a lawyer, the home birth and the question whether a passive behaviour, an act of defiance, may be seen as a form of expression protected by the Convention.