Human Rights Law

Human rights law covers the national and international remedies available where fundamental rights and freedoms are violated by public authority; individual applications to the Constitutional Court and applications to the European Court of Human Rights form the core of this field.

Among these applications, the right to property holds a distinct place. De facto expropriation, real estate reserved for public services by a plan but left unexpropriated for a long period, late or insufficient payment of expropriation compensation, the annulment without compensation of title deeds in favour of the Treasury or the forestry administration, the disproportionate restriction of the right to property through zoning restrictions, and the failure to strike a fair balance between the public interest and the owner’s rights in the deprivation of property are the main subjects of these applications.

Applications concerning the right to a fair trial and to trial within a reasonable time, the examination of admissibility criteria and requests for retrial following findings of a violation also fall within this field.