(Admissibility) Two children found to have minor intellectual disabilities, and both of Roma origin, were placed in a remedial school class with a teacher without a degree in special educational needs. They complained that the decision to place them in a special class was based on their ethnic origin and therefore discriminatory. They brought unsuccessful legal proceedings.
The Court declared the case inadmissible because: the applicants had not brought a civil claim under section 77 of the Public Education Act; they had not met the requirement to come to the European Court of Human Rights within six months of the final decision by the Hungarian legal authorities concerning one set of proceedings and they had not raised the issue of discrimination in the other.
F Tulkens P
2351/06, [2010] ECHR 1926
Bailii
European Convention on Human Rights
Human Rights
Human Rights, Education, Children, Discrimination
Leading Case
Updated: 09 November 2021; Ref: scu.426829
