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Human rights judges have published their first advisory opinion, at the request of a French court, on a surrogacy rights case. The European Court of Human Rights declared today that states are not required to register the details of the birth certificate of a child born through gestational surrogacy abroad in order to establish the legal parent-child relationship with the intended mother

Human rights judges have ruled that Russia must pay 20,000 euros to opposition activist Aleksey Anatolyevich Navalnyy after ccepting that his human rights were violated. The European Court of human rights decided that the house-arrest order and restrictions imposed on Navalnyy breached the human rights convention and as Just satisfaction (Article 41), ordered that in respect of costs and expenses, Russia must pay the applicant a further EUR 2,665

Human rights judges will issue their first ‘advisory opinion. ’ later this week

The case concerned the applicants’ complaint about their arrest and detention for several hours on 29 April 2011 at various places in central London to prevent a breach of the peace during the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding. Agreeing with the UK courts’ review and analyses of the applicants’ cases, the European court found that the courts had struck a fair balance between the applicants’ right to liberty and preventing them from disturbing the public order and causing danger to the public. It moreover pointed out that their analyses had proved to be well-founded, and had informed a 2018 Grand Chamber judgment of the European Court, S., V. and A. v. Denmark (no. 35553/12). In that judgment the Grand Chamber had found it necessary to clarify and adapt the case-law, agreeing with the conclusion of the UK Supreme Court that preventive detention could be compatible with Article 5 in certain circumstances.