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.

MEREZHNIKOV v. RUSSIA (no. 30456/06, judgment of 12 November 2015): negligent excessive use of force.

ÖCALAN v. TURKEY (No 2) (applications nos. 24069/03, 197/04, 6201/06 and 10464/07, judgment of 18 March 2014): life imprisonment without parole for the leader of a terrorist organization, prison regime with severe restrictions of contacts with family and lawyers.

FILIZ v. TURKEY (application no. 28074/08, judgment of 4 March 2014): use of excessive force by police, principle of subsidiarity.

ERTUS v. TURKEY (application no. 37871/08, judgment of 5 November 2013): use of excessive force by police in detention of minor.

VALIULIENE v. LITHUANIA (application no. 33234/07, judgment of 26 March 2013): discontinuance of criminal procedure for domestic violence, State obligation to criminalize and prosecute effectively domestic violence, review of the “Osman test” in domestic violence cases, public interest in the prosecution of domestic violence, gender sensitive interpretation of the Convention

YOH-EKALE MWANJE v. BELGIUM (application no. 10486/10, judgment of 20 December 2011): expulsion of terminally ill foreigner without possibility of treatment in the destination country.

TAUTKUS v. LITHUANIA (application no. 29474/09, judgment of 27 November 2011): State obligation to protect detainees from the danger of severe bodily harm caused by another detainee within the prison facility, State obligation to provide for an individualised sentence plan.

PORTMANN v. SWITZERLAND (application no. 38455/06, judgment of 11 October 2011): hooding of dangerous detainees.

VOLODINA v. RUSSIA (application no. 41261/17, judgment of 9 July 2019): domestic violence as torture, gender sensitive interpretation of the Convention.

PETUKHOV v. UKRAINE (No. 2) (application no. 41216/13, judgment of 12 March 2019): lack of adequate medical care in detention and irreducibility of life sentence.

M. A. v. LITHUANIA (application no. 59793/17, judgment of 11 December 2018): jurisdiction at the land border, immediate refoulement of asylum seeker.

ISAYEVA v. UKRAINE (application no. 35523/06, judgment of 4 December 2018): award of compensation based on objective civil liability of a psychiatric institution.

ABDILLA v. MALTA (application no. 36199/15, judgment of 17 July 2018): prison conditions.

RUIZ PENA AND PEREZ OBERGHT v. MALTA (applications nos. 25218/15 and 25251/15, judgment of 17 July 2018): prisons conditions.

YANEZ PINON AND OTHERS v. MALTA (applications nos. 71645/13, 7143/14 and 20342/15, judgment of 19 December 2017): prison conditions.

PEŇARANDA SOTO v. MALTA (application no. 16680/14, judgment of 19 December 2017): prison conditions, health care, non-derogable minimum core of Article 3.

ALEXANDRU ENACHE v. ROMANIA (application no. 16986/12, judgment of 3 October 2017): ineligibility of the father of a child under the age of one for a stay of execution of his prison sentence on an equal footing with the mother.

D.M.D. v. ROMANIA (application no. 23022/13, judgment of 3 October 2017): illtreatment inflicted on a child by his father, State obligation to prohibit all forms of violence against children.

ABDULLAHI ELMI AND AWEYS ABUBAKAR v. MALTA (applications nos. 25794/13 and 28151/13, judgment of 22 November 2016): excessive detention of young asylum seekers, European and worldwide trend to crimmigration.

MIRONOVAS AND OTHERS v. LITHUANIA (applications nos. 40828/12, 29292/12, 69598/12, 40163/13, 66281/13, 70048/13 and 70065/13, judgment of 8 December 2015): prison overcrowding, insufficient compensatory and preventive remedies.

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