Alla Tymofeyeva

• Charles University in Prague

The chapter one deals with the legal status of the individual in the proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in order to prove that the individual may be seen as a subject of international law from the perspective of the law of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Given the definition of international legal personal...

Navzdory postupnému stárnutí společnosti a lidskoprávním problémům, s nimiž je řada starších lidí, ať už v důsledku svých specifických potřeb, nebo vzhledem k projevům ageismu, konfrontována, budilo dlouho téma ochrany lidských práv starších lidí, a vlastně stále do značné míry budí, jen omezenou pozornost. Starší lidé se, alespoň na univerzální a...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the law of the Council of Europe (CoE) regarding protection of the human rights of elderly in crisis situations using the examples of the armed conflict in Ukraine and COVID-19. Given this, the paper is divided into two main parts. The first part analyses the response of the Council of Europe bodies to the...

The aim of the monograph is to supply legal scholars, practitioners and applicants with an in-depth insight into (tools to go about answering) the question of what position non-governmental organisations hold in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”). It begins by explaining how the term “non-governmental or...

The current textbook aims to assist in obtaining a basic understanding of the European Convention system. It is divided into sixteen Chapters. The first two chapters explain the functioning of the European Court of Human Rights (Court) within the system of protection of human right in Europe. Chapter III is focused on the admissibility of complaint...

This paper’s goal is to compare the standing of state-owned companies as applicants before the European Court of Human Rights, as opposed to before the Czech Constitutional Court. It will be argued that the European Convention’s principle of ‘sufficient institutional and operational independence from the state’ is not relevant for the practice of t...

The aim of this paper is to reflect on three research questions, namely: 1) how to define the term "vulnerability", 2) what are the vulnerability criteria, and 3) what is the effect of categorizing a person as "vulnerable". The answer to these three questions is sought through the prism of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)....

The objective of this paper is to analyse the current international legal framework applicable to older persons in the context of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and evaluate whether it is suffi cient for the purposes of the protection of their human rights. The author will first elaborate on the defi nition of older pers...

Rapid development of new technologies, including the Internet, demonstrates a need for legal regulation of a content that appears on the websites of Internet platforms. However, the regulation of such content must not interfere with the very essence of the right to freedom of expression. The restrictions set forth by the governments should pursue a...

Abstract: This paper reflects on possible consequences of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Delfi AS v. Estonia. This case concerns the liability of the Internet news portal for defamatory comments of anonymous readers. The European Court concluded that entities which provide forums for third parties to post comment...

Abstrakt - Cílem článku je dát krátkou charakteristiku postavení právnických osob v mechanismu ochrany lidských práv, nabízených EÚLP. Analýza rozsudků ESLP ukazuje, že právnické osoby se mohou stěžovat na porušení čl. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 a 14 EÚLP, čl. 1 a 3 Protokolu č. 1, čl. 2, 3 a 4 Protokolu č. 7 a čl.1 Protokolu č. 12 k EÚLP. V některýc...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the rights and obligations of business entities under the European Convention on Human Rights (‘the Convention’) with the purpose of determining the correlation of business and human rights in this instrument. The key focus of this study is to identify whether business entities under this treaty should only be pe...

This paper presents an analysis of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the status of a human embryo. At the beginning, the author makes an overview of the legal documents on the subject-matter produced by intergovernmental organisations on both universal and regional levels. The overview covers also a national legislation o...

Abstract This article provides an overview of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the ECtHR”) regarding the length of civil and criminal proceedings in Russia and the Czech Republic. Analysis shows that the Czech Republic has passed a long way in solving the problem of ‘reasonable time’ and, today, its legislation and p...

The author offers an overview of the ten judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter ‘the Court’), in which it awarded to legal persons the highest amounts of just satisfact ion in the Court’s history. The study is focused on those compensations exceeding one million euros; the highest of the awards, in the Yukos case, is even in b...