ECHR Article 9-1Manifest religion or beliefConfiscation of cassette player used by prisoner to listen to religious tapes: inadmissibleFacts – The applicant, who was of Baptist confession, was serving a lengthy prison sentence. After reacting to the confiscation of a small radio-cassette player he had received after obtaining good results on a ‘Christian moral education’ programme, … Continue reading Austrianu v Romania: ECHR 12 Feb 2013
ECHR Article 9-1 Manifest religion or belief Disciplinary measures against employees for wearing religious symbols (cross) at work or refusing to perform duties they considered incompatible with their religious beliefs: violation; no violations Article 14 Discrimination Disciplinary measures against employees for wearing religious symbols (cross) at work or refusing to perform duties they considered incompatible … Continue reading Eweida And Others v The United Kingdom: ECHR 15 Jan 2013
ECHR Article 9-1 Freedom of religion Dissolution of religious community without relevant and sufficient reasons: violation Facts – The applicant was a Pentecostal mission that registered as a religious organisation in November 1991. In 1996 it founded a Biblical college and Sunday school. However, it was dissolved with immediate effect in October 2007 by order … Continue reading Biblical Centre of The Chuvash Republic v Russia: ECHR 12 Jun 2014
ECHR Judgment : Violation of Article 9 – Freedom of thought, conscience and religion Article 9-1 – Freedom of religion Non-pecuniary damage Citations: 58088/08, [2017] ECHR 568 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 26 November 2022; Ref: scu.607685
Statement of Facts and questions to the parties Citations: 48420/10, [2011] ECHR 738 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Citing: At CA – Eweida v British Airways Plc CA 12-Feb-2010 The court was asked whether, by adopting a staff dress code which forbade the wearing of visible neck adornment and … Continue reading Eweida And Chaplin v The United Kingdom: ECHR 12 Apr 2011
Article 9-1. A church, as such, is capable of exercising the rights contained in Article 9 (New jurisprudence). The freedom to manifest religious belief in practice dows not confer protection on statements of purported religious belief which are nonetheless of a commercial nature. Dostinction between advertisements which are merely ‘informational’ and those of a commercial … Continue reading Church of Scientology v Sweden: ECHR 5 May 1979
(The High Court of Justiciary) The prosecution had accepted that the matter had been the subject of unreasonable delay, but wished to continue. The defendant sought a plea in bar, on the basis that continuing would infringe his rights. Held: Once it was accepted that the delay took the prosecution outside the defendant’s right to … Continue reading Regina v HM Advocate and The Advocate General for Scotland: PC 28 Nov 2002
ECHR Judgment : Freedom of thought, conscience and religion Article 9-1 – Manifest religion or belief : Second Section Citations: 3413/09, [2018] ECHR 727 Links: Bailii Statutes: European Convention on Human Rights Jurisdiction: Human Rights Human Rights Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.622524
ECHR Article 9-1 Freedom of religion violation Facts – On a Friday in May 2011 around noon the applicant went to a Sofia mosque for regular Friday prayers. On the same day around 150 leaders and supporters of a right-wing political party came to protest against the noise emanating from loudspeakers at the mosque during … Continue reading Karaahmed v Bulgaria: ECHR 24 Feb 2015
ECHR Article 35-1 Exhaustion of domestic remedies Effective domestic remedy Length-of-proceedings complaint under Article 6.272 of the Civil Code as interpreted by domestic courts: effective remedy: inadmissible Facts – The applicants were serving or former judges or their lawful heirs. Following a reduction in judges’ salaries by 30% in 1999, the applicants instituted proceedings before … Continue reading Savickas And Others v Lithuania (Dec): ECHR 15 Oct 2013
The court was asked whether, by adopting a staff dress code which forbade the wearing of visible neck adornment and so prevented the appellant, a Christian, from wearing with her uniform a small, visible cross, British Airways (BA) indirectly discriminated against her on grounds of religion or belief. Held: There was no requirement that a … Continue reading Eweida v British Airways Plc: CA 12 Feb 2010
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