Clik here to view.
MPs call for renewed PACE attention to human rights situation in Azerbaijan
In the first substantive discussion on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan at the Council of Europe since the defeat in January of a key resolution at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
View ArticleAdvocate General on blocking access to websites that infringe copyrights
Can copyright holders demand from internet service providers (ISPs) blocking access to sites that violate copyrights? According to Advocate General Cruz Villalon, they can. Judgment passed in the UPC...
View ArticleEuropean asylum system – judgment in Shamso Abdullahi v Bundesasylamt (C‑394/12)
Ms Abdullahi, aged 22, was born in Somalia. In 2011 she fled her country and went to Syria. Afterwards, through Turkey she escaped to the EU. First she entered Greece, and then travelled through...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rights of same-sex couples under EU law – CJEU judgment in Hay (C‑267/12)
The law on the marital status is a competence of the Member States. The EU law prohibits, however, discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation. Recently the CJEU ruled that same sex...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Case C-176/12 AMS – EU Charter in disputes between private parties
A person whose rights are specified in a directive not properly implemented and who is in conflict with another private party cannot rely on the directive before the court. If the rights are not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Right to residence: not for prisoners
On 16 January 2014 the CJEU gave a preliminary ruling in the case (C-400/12) concerning the Directive 2004/38 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely...
View ArticleCan hyperlinks violate IP law? CJEU ruling in C-466/12
Under EU law it is the author who decides about the public availability of his or her work. In Sweden an administrator of a website placed on his webpage hyperlinks to publicly available articles....
View ArticleBe aware of copyrights fees!
In each member states debates are conducted on the need to pay copyrights fees to a collecting society acting on behalf of authors. Every service provider or manufacturer that wishes to broadcast music...
View ArticleRise and fall of data retention directive
The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared the so-called Data Retention Directive to be invalid. Interestingly enough, in 2013 the same Court ordered Sweden to make a payment of 3 million...
View ArticleCJEU in favour of the right to be forgotten. Judgment in Google Spain and...
In the long-awaited judgment in the Google Spain and Google case CJEU did not follow the opinion of Advocate General. It adopted an approach which is much stricter towards the operators of search...
View Article
