GIRGINOVA v. BULGARIA

2025-03-04 · European Court of Human Rights · Council of Europe

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2026-05-12ASEN ASENOV v. BULGARIAEuropean Court of Human Rightsfollowed 2026-04-21NEDERLANDSE OMROEP STICHTING AND OTHERS v. THE NETHERLANDSEuropean Court of Human Rightsfollowed 2025-12-04KHAGHAGHUTYAN YERKKHOSUTYUN v. ARMENIAEuropean Court of Human Rights

What it rests on

31 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.

Abdilla v. Malta, no. 36199/15Almeida Fernandes and Almeida Fernandes v. Portugal, no. 31566/13Amie and Others v. Bulgaria, no. 58149/08A.N. v. Lithuania, no. 17280/08B and C v. Switzerland, nos. 889/19Bubon v. Russia, no. 63898/09C.G. and Others v. Bulgaria, no. 1365/07Donner v. Austria, no. 32407/04Dupuis and Others v. France, no. 1914/02Fazliyski v. Bulgaria, no. 40908/05Genov and Sarbinska v. Bulgaria, no. 52358/15Glas Nadezhda EOOD and Elenkov v. Bulgaria, no. 14134/02Ivan Atanasov v. Bulgaria, no. 12853/03Ivanov and Others v. Bulgaria, no. 46336/99Izet Haxhia v. Albania, no. 34783/06Kaggali v. Greece, no. 9733/03Kiril Ivanov v. Bulgaria, no. 17599/07Lamanna v. Austria, no. 28923/95Manushaqe Puto and Others v. Albania, nos. 604/07Neshkov and Others v. Bulgaria, nos. 36925/10Nikolova and Vandova v. Bulgaria, no. 20688/04Raza v. Bulgaria, no. 31465/08Rifat Demir v. Turkey, no. 24267/07Schaffung v. Austria, no. 39534/07

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.

not characterised

Most citations carry no word at all. The Court does not always say what it is doing when it cites one of its own judgments, and where it stayed silent nothing is inferred here.