issued by the Registrar of the Court
ECHR 447 (2012)
10.12.2012
Forthcoming judgments
The European Court of Human Rights will be notifying in writing 36 judgments on
Tuesday 18 December 2012.
Press releases and texts of the judgments will be available at 10 a.m. (local time) on
the Court’s Internet site (www.echr.coe.int)
Tuesday 18 December 2012
Meirelles v. Bulgaria (application no. 66203/10)
The applicant, Ivana Meirelles, is a Brazilian national who was born in 1986 and lives in
Bulgaria. In 2005 she began living with a Bulgarian man. In 2007 she gave birth to a
child, and her partner recognised his paternity. Ms Meirelles claims that she was
subjected to physical and psychological violence by her partner from the outset of their
relationship, and by his family after the child’s birth. On 9 September 2009, she was
expelled from their shared flat, in application of a judicial decision based on an
attestation by her partner, who accused her of domestic violence against him and the
child. On the following day he applied to have her deprived of her parental rights,
arguing that since the child’s birth she had failed to look after him, and that he and his
parents had provided the care required by the child, without her help. Relying on
Article 8, Ms Meirelles alleges that the Bulgarian authorities breached her right to respect
for family life, in that her request for interim measures allowing her to visit the child was
not, in her view, examined promptly, and no measures were taken against the father,
who had prevented her from exercising those visiting rights that she was granted.
Relying on Article 6 (right to a fair trial), she complains about the length of the
proceedings in the action to deprive her of parental rights.
Kudra v. Croatia (no. 13904/07)
The applicants, Stjepan, Ruža, Josip and Ivana Kudra, are Croatian nationals who live in
Nuštar (Croatia). They are the parents and siblings of Ivan Kudra, who died in hospital in
October 1993, being treated for a serious head injury he had sustained in an accident
while playing near an open construction site. The applicants allege that his death was
the result of medical negligence. Relying on Article 2 (right to life), they complain that
the civil proceedings which they brought against the construction company, the investors
responsible for the construction site and against the hospital failed to meet the
requirement of promptness and effective establishment of responsibility for Ivan’s death.
Relying further on Articles 6 § 1 (right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time), 8
(right to respect for private and family life) and 13 (right to an effective remedy), they
also complain that the proceedings lasted too long, that the failure of the Croatian courts
to establish all the relevant facts violated their right to respect for private and family life
and that they had no effective domestic remedy in respect of their complaints.
Baisuev and Anzorov v. Georgia (no. 39804/04)
The applicants, Adam Baisuev and Rustam Anzorov, are Russian nationals who were
born in 1980 and 1979 respectively. They are of Chechen origin. Residing at the time in
Tbilisi (Georgia), where they had refugee status, they were detained for three hours at a
police station in the course of a large-scale identity check operation conducted by the
Georgian police on 7 December 2002 targeted at Russian citizens of Chechen origin.
Relying on Article 5 §§ 1, 2, and 4 (right to liberty and security), they complain that