Alapjogi jogesetek – a strasbourgi Emberi Jogok Európai Bírósága

Abstract

Since the last issue of Acta Humana, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled on a number of important cases. The present review intends to analyse a decision concerning the Hungarian abolition of service pensions and their conversion into allowances, affecting a high number of applicants. It also discusses the judgment concerning the premature dismissal of the former President of the Supreme Court of Hungary. Two further cases are included for their relevance from a procedural point of view. Among cases concerning other countries, this paper covers judgments concerning the representation of extremely vulnerable victims before the Court, the “extraordinary rendition” programme of the CIA, the recognition of parenthood of children born as a result of a surrogacy arrangement and the ban on wearing religious face covering in public. Furthermore, an inter-State judgment about collective expulsion as well as a jurisprudential novelty concerning the “significant disadvantage” admissibility criterion are also evoked.