General measures
When the European Court of Human Rights finds a violation, the country in question often has to take compliance measures and to amend parts of its legislation. The Court’s judgments also lead to frequent evolutions of national tribunals’ case-law.
- Austria ended the monopoly applying to television
- Belgium amended its laws on homeless people and adopted measures to prohibit any discrimination against children born outside marriage
- Bulgaria created an alternative to military service for conscientious objectors
- Croatia introduced an effective remedy against the excessive length of court proceedings
- Czechia passed a new bankruptcy law
- Denmark extended the right not to belong to a trade union
- Finland amended its law on child custody and visiting rights
- France, Spain and the United Kingdom passed laws on telephone tapping
- Germany gave celebrities a greater right not to have their private photographs published
- Greece improved detention conditions for foreigners awaiting deportation
- Hungary introduced fairer decision-making with regard to prolongation of remand in custody
- Ireland decriminalised homosexual acts
- Italy made it compulsory for defence lawyers to appear before the Court of Cassation
- Latvia abolished discriminatory language tests for election candidates
- Moldova recognised freedom of religion
- the Netherlands amended its legislation on the detention of patients with mental illnesses
- Poland introduced an effective compensation system for certain persons whose property had been expropriated following the Second World War
- Romania cancelled provisions making it possible to annul final court decisions
- the Slovak Republic amended its legislation on child placement
- Slovenia took measures to prevent ill-treatment by the police
- Sweden amended its provisions on public trials
- Switzerland reviewed its criminal court system and criminal procedures
- Turkey abolished the presence of military judges in state security courts
- Ukraine amended its libel legislation
- the United Kingdom banned corporal punishment in schools.
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