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Shortening the dying process of people suffering from serious, incurable illnesses at their request or assisting their suicide raises significant legal questions, in addition to ethical, philosophical, religious, and medical issues, which have been answered differently by European constitutional courts in recent years. The European Court of Human Rights, in its judgment in the case of Dániel Karsai… Tovább

This Article seeks to put into light the constitutional protection of the “right to a name”. As a first step, the research examines if the texts of constitutions/human rights documents have explicit references to the protection of the right to a name. After the textual evaluation, the Article focuses on the relevant case-law of constitutional courts. Based on the decisions of the Constitutional Court of … Tovább

The right to a fair trial includes the right to a lawful judge. The essence of the constitutional content of the right to a lawful judge is that the constitutional assignment of a judge to a case can only be made on objective grounds by applying predetermined, general rules. In order to determine who can be considered a lawful judge in a particular case, the provisions of the procedural law in question relating … Tovább

The study focuses on the constitutional protection of judicial independence in the practice of the German Federal Constitutional Court and the Hungarian Constitutional Court in view of the evolving case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The study outlines the development and requirements laid down by the CJEU concerning judicial independence, followed by the comparative analysis… Tovább