SOUROULLAS KAY AND ZANNETTOS v. CYPRUS

2024-11-26 · European Court of Human Rights · Council of Europe

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2025-10-16FAJSTAVR v. THE CZECH REPUBLICEuropean Court of Human Rightsfollowed 2025-07-17OPALENKO v. UKRAINEEuropean Court of Human Rights

What it rests on

11 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Negulescu v. Romania, no. 11230/12 ×2Nevzlin v. Russia, no. 26679/08 ×2Correia de Matos v. Portugal [GC], no. 56402/12Doyle v. Ireland, no. 51979/17Isyar v. Bulgaria, no. 391/03Lhermitte v. Belgium [GC], no. 34238/09Mirilashvili v. Russia, no. 6293/04Natunen v. Finland, no. 21022/04Radzevil v. Ukraine, no. 36600/09

Departed from

No judgment recorded a departure from this one.

Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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