issued by the Registrar of the Court
ECHR 278 (2024)
28.11.2024
Judgments and decisions of 28 November 2024
The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing 14 judgments1 and 53 decisions2:
one Chamber judgment is summarised below;
13 Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been examined by the Court, and
The judgment summarised below is available only in English.
Klaudia Csikós v. Hungary (application no. 31091/16)
The applicant, Klaudia Csikós, is a Hungarian national who was born in 1975 and lives in Budapest.
She is a journalist for Blikk, a daily newspaper.
The case concerns the alleged tapping of telephone calls between the applicant and one of her close
acquaintances, a police officer, over a three-day period, apparently with a view to revealing her
journalistic sources within the police in the context of an investigation into abuse of authority.
Relying on Articles 8 (right to respect for private and family life), 10 (freedom of expression) and
13 (right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention on Human Rights, she complains about
the tapping of those telephone conversations and that she was denied an effective remedy in that
connection.
Violation of Article 8
Violation of Article 10
Just satisfaction:
non-pecuniary damage: 6,500 euros (EUR)
costs and expenses: EUR 7,000
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1
Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a Chamber
judgment’s delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a
panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and
deliver a final judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the
Convention, judgments delivered by a Committee are final.
Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution.
Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution
2
Inadmissibility and strike-out decisions are final.
