justification offered by the Government – the need to preserve immigration control and to prevent “benefits tourism” – was not sufficiently weighty, nor was it a proportionate and reasonable response to the perceived

    The remaining applicants submitted that they had been intimidated by the interviews conducted by the authorities in respect of their applications at Strasbourg and had specifically perceived

The lyrics directly suggested injuring or killing politicians, judges, security forces, rich, royal family and those perceived as ideological opponents.

The Court rejects this request, noting that the Government have not specified which expressions they took for insults, and that the applicant has apologised for any perceived harshness of language. 12.

As regards the measures which the authorities might reasonably have been expected to take to avoid that risk, the information concerning R.L.’s medical history and perceived dangerousness was not brought

    The Court considers that the real issue in the present case is whether the Appeal Court was capable of remedying any perceived unfairness at first instance.

    On 10 March 2009 the applicant completed the appeal, adding that the perceived serious breach of law could not be explained as a mistake of an inexperienced judge, since the judgment was

assessment of non-pecuniary damage, its value lay in the fact it had allowed those women who had not wanted to bring civil proceedings, or whose claims might not have succeeded, to obtain redress for the perceived

considered that the manner in which the police had responded and the degree of force used had not been strictly proportionate to the aim of preventing Mr Kałucki’s escape and arresting him or averting the perceived

Having regard to the unusual nature of the complaint, in which immunity was perceived not as an advantage for the beneficiary but as a disadvantage linked to parliamentary office, the Court found that

The evidence before the Court confirmed the existence of a persisting practice of torture, with a view to extracting self-incriminating confessions and to punishing those who were perceived by public authorities

It is true that on his release he signed a statement without a complaint; however, the Court cannot attach much importance to this circumstance in a situation where the signature might have been perceived

It would thus not have been unreasonable for the applicant to infer that the threats had been part of a deliberate strategy employed against him by the NSS as a whole, thereby exacerbating their perceived

induce the respondent Government to take action as promptly as possible under pain of increased damages, it found no precedent for such an ongoing, indefinite and prospective award in its case-law and perceived

Such security arrangements, given their cumulative effect, had in the applicant’s case been excessive and could reasonably have been perceived by the applicant and the public as humiliating.

Furthermore, the assessment of her age had never been checked against other evidence in the case file, clearly suggesting that the applicant had been perceived as an adult by various authorities and other

Consequently, it was improbable that she was perceived as a political opponent.

assessment of non-pecuniary damage, its value lay in the fact it had allowed those women who had not wanted to bring civil proceedings, or whose claims might not have succeeded, to obtain redress for the perceived

assessment of non-pecuniary damage, its value lay in the fact it had allowed those women who had not wanted to bring civil proceedings, or whose claims might not have succeeded, to obtain redress for the perceived

The domestic system, in such circumstances, perceived no conflict between the vital interests of the State and the right of the individual to protection.