X AND OTHERS v. BULGARIA (application no. 22457/16, judgment of 2 February 2021): failure to use all reasonable investigative and international cooperation measures while examining sexual abuse in an orphanage alleged after children’s adoption abroad, in accordance with the Lanzarote Convention.
HUTCHINSON v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (application no. 57592/08, judgment of 17 January 2017): whole life sentence without any legally based parole mechanism in
spite of ECHR’s judgment imposing the adoption of such mechanism by the UK, the Court’s judgment as res interpretata, State obligation to “take into account” the judgments of the Court, Argentoratum locutum, iudicium finitum – “Strasbourg has spoken, the case is closed”, universalism and diversity in human rights.
MURSIC v. CROATIA (application no. 7334/13, judgment of 20 October 2016): prison overcrowding, the minimum living space in a multiple-occupancy cell, European consensus and the CPT standards, the role of soft law in European human rights law, evolutive interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
MURRAY v. THE NETHERLANDS (application no. 10511/10, judgment of 26 April 2016): detention of mentally ill prisoner for more than thirty-four years without any
kind of psychiatric or psychological treatment, State obligation to promote 16/103 resocialisation of prisoners through individualised sentence plans and to provide for a
judicial, fair and objective mechanism of review of the penological needs for continued incarceration.
S.J. v. BELGIUM (application no. 70055/10, judgment of 19 March 2015): procedure for expulsion of terminally ill foreigner, discontinuance of the ECHR case based on Government promise to take care of the applicant, but without any undertaking regarding all other people in the same circumstances
HIRSI JAMAA AND OTHERS v. ITALY (application no. 27765/09, judgment of 23 February 2012): collective refoulement of asylum seekers in a “push-back” operation on the high seas.
TAGAYEVA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA (application no. 26562/07 and 6 other applications, judgment of 13 April 2017): large-scale attack on a school and deficient anti terrorist operation which left more than 330 people dead, State obligation to prevent, plan, control and use lethal force in anti-terrorist operations in accordance with “strict necessity” test, amnesty to police officers involved.
BLJAKAJ AND OTHERS v. CROATIA (application no. 74448/12, judgment of 18 September 2014): lawyer in a divorce action threatened and attacked by the adverse party, State obligation to protect lawyers from work-related violence and against violent acts of mentally disturbed persons.
CAMEKAN v. TURKEY (application no. 54241/08, judgment of 28 January 2014): self-defence, reassessment of facts by the ECHR, principle of subsidiarity.
PERINÇEK v. SWITZERLAND (application no. 27510/08, judgment of 17 December 2013): denial of the Armenian genocide in a public conference, State obligation to criminalize the denial of genocide.
TREVALEC v. BELGIUM (application no. 30812/07, judgment of 14 June 2011): journalist injured by mistake by police officers who thought that he was attacking them, putative and excessive self-defence.
JEANTY v. BELGIUM (application no. 82284/17, judgment of 31 March 2020): detainee who make several attempts to commit suicide, State obligation to provide health care to detainee with suicidal tendency.
VOVK and BOGDANOV v. RUSSIA (application no. 15613/10, judgment of 11 February 2020): obligation to criminalise negligent actions and omissions, use of explosive devices by the military.
ZINATULLIN v. RUSSIA (application no. 10551/10, judgment of 14 January 2020): victim status before the ECHR regarding substantive violation of article 2, due to insufficient domestic compensation.
MAKUCHYAN AND MINASYAN v. AZERBAIJAN AND HUNGARY (application no. 17247/13, judgment of 26 May 2020): conviction of Azerbaijani national in Hungary for extremely cruel hate murder of a Armenian national, failure by Hungary to ensure that Azerbaijani national would continue to serve his prison sentence upon transfer to home country, pardon by Azerbaijan president o99f the murderer when he arrived home, Azerbaijan’s acknowledgement and adoption of crime “as its own”.
MARIUS ALEXANDRU AND MARINELA ȘTEFAN v. ROMANIA (application no. 78643/11, judgment of 24 March 2020): traffic accident caused by falling of a rottentree in a public road, State obligation to care for the safety of public roads and trees planted along the roads.
AKELIENĖ v. LITHUANIA (application no. 54917/13, judgment of 16 October 2018): failure to enforce a custodial sentence imposed on a fugitive double murderer, drawing arguments to the Government’s benefit from incomplete or insufficient sources, fallacy of ignorance (argumentum ad ignorantiam), treatment of classified documents.











