Alapjogi jogesetek – a strasbourgi Emberi Jogok Európai Bírósága

Abstract

The high number of complaints concerning excessively long judicial proceedings in Hungary led the European Court of Human Rights to call for a remedy to that systemic problem in civil cases, following a similar judgment concerning criminal proceedings back in 2013. Beside that pilot judgment, another decision concerning the so-called “spy case” against former Hungarian intelligence chiefs will be given an account in the present review.

As regards cases against other countries, in the last period three Grand Chamber judgments, two of them concerning the Armenian-Azeri conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and the third one the liability of content providers for user comments posted on their site, were of particular interest. Moreover, three other cases bringing about certain development in the interpretation and application of Articles 5 and 8 of the Convention will also be reported.