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18/04/2008 -
National Courts: Supreme Courts (Italy) - Corte Costituzionale
Classificazione: Solidarity - Art. 37 Environmental protection
Since art par lett s of the Constitution ascribes to the State the exclusive competence to protect the environment and the whole ecosystem the Italian Constitutional Court has established that the State must discipline the ...
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18/04/2008 -
National Courts: Supreme Courts (Italy) - Corte Costituzionale
Classificazione: Solidarity - Art. 37 Environmental protection
The Constitutional Court has stated again that from the environmental point of view woods and forests are goods of primary and absolute value in the sense that the protection provided by the State within its ...
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16/04/2008 -
National Courts: Supreme Courts (France) - Cour de Cassation
Classificazione: Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal
By this decision the first civil chamber of the Court of cassation has recognized the legitimacy of an action brought by the relatives of a detainee who had committed suicide in prison for the compensation ...
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15/04/2008 -
National Courts: Supreme Courts (Italy) - Corte Costituzionale
Classificazione: Justice
The Italian Constitutional Court has for the first time seized prejudicially the European Court of Justice changing its jurisprudence on the point ...
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10/04/2008 -
National Courts: Supreme Courts (France) - Conseil d’État
Classificazione: Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing
Seized by several bar associations the Council of State quashes certain norms of the decree June concerning money laundering The Council interprets restrictively the obligations imposed upon lawyers by European norms against money laundering according ...
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09/04/2008 -
National Courts: Merit's Courts (England) - Court of Appeal of London
Classificazione: Dignity - Art. 4 Torture - Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Freedoms - Art. 19 Extradition - Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing - Independent and impartial tribunal
The Court of Appeal quashing the former decision of the SIAC Special Immigration Appeals Commission denies the extradition of a Jordan citizen because of the high risk of serious violations of the rights guaranteed by ...
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08/04/2008 -
National Courts: Supreme Courts (France) - Cour de Cassation
Classificazione: Freedoms - Art. 11 Freedom of expression - Freedom of information
The Court of Cassation has quashed the previous sentence of the Court of Appeal against the Association Greenpeace for abuse of the right to freedom of expression because of the disparaging use of a trademark ...
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01/04/2008 -
National Courts: Supreme Courts (Germany) - Bundesverfassungsgeright
Classificazione: Equality - Art. 24 Children’s rights
The Federal Constitutional Court refers to the European Convention for Human Rights according to art par of the ECHR and to art par of the UN Convention on the rights of the child the primary ...
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28/03/2008 -
National Courts: Supreme Courts (Italy) - Corte di Cassazione
Classificazione: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination
The Court although stating once again that the concept of discrimination and racial hatred must be reconstructed in the light of the UN Convention of New York and of Directive number n considers groundless the ...
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18/03/2008 -
National Courts: Supreme Courts (Spain) - Tribunal Supremo
Classificazione: Solidarity - Art. 34 Social security - Social benefits
The Supreme Court refuses to the irregular foreigner without the permit of stay the possibility to receive unemployment benefit ...