The right to privacy, as enshrined in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter ECHR), imposes a number of positive obligations on States to protect victims of all forms of violence, including cyberviolence; to establish and implement in practice an adequate legal framework to protect against violence committed by private persons; to […]
READ MOREWhen the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter referred to as the ECtHR) examines issues concerning compliance with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 (the right to free elections) to the European Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter referred to as the ECHR), it focuses on two criteria: whether there was an arbitrary element or a […]
READ MOREIn mid-August 2022, the Ministry of Justice published for consultation the draft of the new Law on the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), which was drafted following discussions in a working group set up by the Ministry which included judges, prosecutors, lawyers and representatives of civil society. The Ministry of Justice has requested the opinion […]
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