The European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence on Austria 2018

• Published in: Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht (Vienna, Austria : 1996) Vol. 74; no. 4; pp. 993 - 1012
• Main Authors: Müller, Andreas Th, Weiskopf, Theresa M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Verlag Österreich 05-12-2019
• Subjects: 103 Motor Vehicles Act (KFG); 188, § 207b, § 209, § 283 Criminal Code (StGB); 22 Courts Act (GOG); 529 Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO); Art 20 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (IPbpR); Art 6, Art 9, Art 10, Art 13, Art 35 ECHR (EMRK); blasphemy; deletion of criminal convictions; disparaging religious doctrines; impartiality; incitement; lack of effective remedy; lack of hearing; length of proceedings; non-exhaustion of domestic remedies; presumption of innocence; religious hatred; revision of judgments; right to remain silent; Rule 80 Rules of Court (EGMR-Verfahrensordnung); self-incrimination; ZOER 2019, 993; Öffentliches Recht
• ISSN: 0948-4396; 1613-7663

The year 2018 brought a limited number of only five judgments in relation to individual applications directed against Austria. Three of these judgments related to the “usual suspect” in terms of affected Convention rights, ie Article 6 of the Convention, and Austria was found to have violated this provision in all of these cases. In contrast, Austria was not found in breach of Article 10 of the Convention in the most prominent decision of 2018, the E.S. case. The fifth judgment represents one of the rare cases of revision of a judgment of the Court.
2018 fällte der EGMR lediglich fünf Urteile zu Individualbeschwerden gegen Österreich. Drei davon betrafen den „üblichen Verdächtigen“ in Sachen betroffene EMRK-Garantien, und Österreich wurde in allen diesen Fällen wegen Verletzung von Art 6 EMRK verurteilt. Zu keiner Verurteilung in Hinblick auf Art 10 EMRK kam es dagegen in der prominentesten Entscheidung des Jahres, dem E.S.-Fall. Das fünfte Urteil betrifft einen der seltenen Fälle einer Urteilsrevision durch den EGMR.