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| CUREDI ID | Question at stake | Country | Official Citation | Date of decision | Author | |
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| CUREDI041UK014 | 1) Whether “women in the Ivory Coast” form a particular social group (PSG) under the Refugee Convention. 2) Whether the appellant– a Muslim woman with an illegitimate child and a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM), forced marriage, and domestic violence – would upon return to the Ivory Coast face a real risk of persecution under the Refugee Convention or treatment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). 3) Whether the removal of the appellant and her child from the UK would be in breach of their rights under Article 8 of the ECHR, and 4) Whether sufficient protection and internal relocation would be available for them within the Ivory Coast. | United Kingdom | MD (Women) Ivory Coast v SSHD CG [2010] UKUT 215 (IAC) |
2010-07-07 | Iulia Mirzac |
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| CUREDI057BE004 | Whether a Moroccan *kafalah* judgment can be recognized in Belgium? | Belgium | Court of appeal of Antwerp, 16 May 2017 (Hof van beroep Antwerpen 16 mei 2017) and court of appeal of Antwerp, 25 May 2016 (Hof van beroep Antwerpen 25 mei 2016). The latter being an interim judgment. |
2017-05-16 | Yasmina El Kaddouri; Jinske Verhellen |
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| CUREDI018PT004 | Whether the applicant’s dismissal due to allegedly false statements about her health status was legally justified. | Portugal | Court of Appeal Porto, Judgmenet of 13 February 2017, Processo No. 7526/15.0T8VNG.P1 (Tribunal da Relação do Porto, Acórdão de 13 de fevereiro de 2017, Processo n.º 7526/15.0T8VNG.P1)
ECLI:PT:TRP:2017:7526.15.0T8VNG.P1.7C
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2017-02-13 | Mariana Monteiro de Matos |
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| CUREDI023NL003 | Whether the Dutch court considers the type of divorce (tafriq or talaq) to be relevant to the claim of the woman to the dower according to Iraqi law. | Netherlands | Court of Appeal Amsterdam, Decision of 16 July 2019, 200.177.325/01 (Gerechtshof Amsterdam 16 juli 2019)
ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2019:2705
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2019-07-16 | Susan Rutten |
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| CUREDI002FR012 | Whether the prohibition for a mother to expose her children to the members of Raëlism, the religious movement she adheres to, violates Articles 8, 9, 10, 11, both alone and in combination with Article 14 of the ECHR. | France | F.L. v. France, App. no. 61162/00, 03 November 2005
ECLI:CE:ECHR:2005:1103DEC006116200
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2005-11-03 | Alice Margaria |
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| CUREDI033DE011 | Whether the assumption that the perpetrator in an honour killing case had carried out the decision of a family council should play a role in sentencing. | Germany | Regional Court Hagen , Criminal Division with lay judges, Judgment of 19 January 2010, 52 KLs 400 Js 552/08 -9/09 (LG Hagen, Schwurgericht, Urteil vom 19. Januar 2010, 52 KLs 400 Js 552/08 -9/09)
ECLI:DE:LGHA:2010:0119.52KLS400JS552.08.00
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2010-01-19 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE012 | Whether the motive of restoring one’s honour is a base motive. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, 5. Division, Judgment of 22 July 2020, 5 StR 543/19 (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH, 5.Strafsenat, Urteil vom 22. Juli 2020, 5 StR 543/19)
ECLI:DE:BGH:2020:220720U5STR543.19.0
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2020-07-22 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE013 | Whether a homicide committed out of anger over an insult may fulfil one of the requirements of murder under specific aggravating circumstances due to the existence of base motives. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, 1. Criminal Division, Judgement of 11 October 2005, 1 StR 195/05 (BGH 1. Strafsenat, Urteil vom 11. Oktober 2005,1 StR 195/05) |
2005-10-11 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE014 | Whether it is possible, when sentencing, to take into consideration the ideas of a person who has grown up in a foreign legal order. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, Judgment of 27 January 2011, 2 StR 493/10 (BGH, Urteil vom 27. Januar 2011, 2 StR 493/10) |
2011-01-27 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI047DE003 | Whether a private association campaigning against abortion can, in view of its right to freedom of religion, be ordered not to address women who are about to enter a pregnancy counselling centre. | Germany | Higher Administrative Court Baden-Württemberg, Decision of 10 June 2011, 1 S 915/11 (VGH Baden-Württemberg, Beschluss vom 10. Juni 2011, 1 S 915/11)
ECLI:DE:VGHBW:2011:0610.1S915.11.0A
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2011-06-10 | Adina Müller; Michael Germann |
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| CUREDI041UK001 | Whether the appellants, as women victims of trafficking in Albania, are members of a ‘particular social group’ under the Refugee Convention, and whether internal relocation is possible for them. | United Kingdom | AM and BM (Trafficked women) Albania CG [2010] UKUT 80 (IAC) |
2010-02-18 | Iulia Mirzac |
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| CUREDI041UK002 | Whether “former victims of trafficking” and “former victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation” can be members of a “particular social group” (PSG) under the Refugee Convention. Whether the appellant is at risk of persecution in Moldova based on membership in such a group. | United Kingdom | SB (PSG – Protection Regulations – Reg 6) Moldova CG [2008] UKAIT 00002 |
2007-04-26 | Iulia Mirzac; Katia Bianchini |
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| CUREDI041UK003 | Whether members of a family involved in a blood feud in Albania form a “particular social group” under the Refugee Convention and whether internal relocation is possible for them. | United Kingdom | EH (blood feuds) Albania CG [2012] UKUT 00348 (IAC) |
2012-10-15 | Iulia Mirzac; Katia Bianchini |
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| CUREDI018DE009 | Whether an army regulation prohibiting a Goth soldier from wearing his desired long hair violates his right to free development of his personality. | Germany | Federal Administrative Court, Decision of 31 January 2019, 1 WB 28/17 (BVerwG, Beschluss vom 31. Januar 2019, 1 WB 28/17)
ECLI:DE:BVerwG:2019:310119B1WB28.17.0
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2019-01-31 | Mariana Monteiro de Matos |
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| CUREDI013UK016 | Whether internal relocation was a viable alternative for the appellant, an asylum seeker from the Gambia who feared witchcraft persecution on the ground of religious beliefs. | United Kingdom | Ismaila Demba v SSHD [2015] UKUT 01405 (IAC) |
2015-08-25 | Katia Bianchini |
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| CUREDI045AT006 | Whether Article 43a of the School Education Act, which prohibits children under the age of ten from wearing religious headwear in school, violates the freedom of religion and the right of parents to have their children educated in accordance with their religious and philosophical convictions. | Austria | Constitutional Court, Judgement of 11 December 2020, G 4/2020 (VfGH, Erkenntnis vom 11. Dezember 2020, G 4/2020)
ECLI:AT:VFGH:2020:G4.2020
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2020-12-11 | Kerstin Wonisch; Alexander Ganepola |
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| CUREDI045RU007 | Whether the Chekhov Town Council’s refusal to allow the pastor of the Evangelical Church to hold religious services in a public area violated the rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of religion protected by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). | Russia | Barankevich v Russia, App no 10519/03, 26 July 2007
ECLI:CE:ECHR:2007:0726JUD001051903
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2007-07-26 | Kerstin Wonisch; Alexander Ganepola |
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| CUREDI033DE021 | Whether the father of the victim, who did not actively commit the criminal act himself, can be punished as a co-perpetrator of murder under specific aggravating circumstances. | Germany | Regional Court Kleve, Judgment of 29 December 2009, 170 Kls -101 Js 105/09 10/09 (LG Kleve, Urteil vom 29.Dezember 2009, 170 Kls -101 Js 105/09-10/09)
ECLI:DE:LGKLE:2009:1229.170KLS101JS105.09.00
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2009-12-29 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE015 | Whether the pressure on the perpetrator by his family to commit the crime, resulting from ideas from other cultures, may be assessed as a mitigating circumstance in favour of the perpetrator. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, Fourth Criminal Division, Judgment of 01 February 2007, 4 StR 514/06 (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH 4. Strafsenat, Urteil vom 01. Februar 2007, 4 StR 514/06) |
2007-02-01 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE016 | Whether ideas rooted in the original culture of perpetrator and victim may be taken into consideration in assessing a spousal rape as a less serious case (Art.177 para 5 German Penal Code). | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, 2nd Criminal Division, Judgment of 29 August 2001, 2 StR 276/01 (BGH 2. Strafsenat, Urteil vom 29.08.2001, 2 StR 276/01) |
2001-08-29 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE017 | Whether “archaic” (“archaische”) traditions in which the perpetrator is rooted, may be regarded a mitigating circumstance if, in the perpetrators’ country of origin, state law punishes the described acts. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, 1. Criminal Division, Order of 18 August 2009, 1 StR 351/09 (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH 1. Strafsenat, Beschluss vom 18. August 2009, 1 StR 351/09) |
2009-08-18 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE018 | Whether a homicide committed out of anger over an insult may fulfil one of the possible criteria for murder under specific aggravating circumstances, namely the existence of base motives. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, 5th Criminal Division, Judgement of 28 November 2018, 5StR 379/18 (BGH 5. Strafsenat, Urteil vom 28. November 2018, 5 StR 379/18)
ECLI:DE:BGH:2018:281118U5STR379.18.0
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2018-11-28 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE019 | Whether a mediation process carried out according to norms of a cultural minority can qualify as a legitimate form of reconciliation within the meaning of Section 46 a of the German Penal Code. | Germany | Regional Court Freiburg, 10th Small Criminal Chamber, Judgment of 18 June 2019, 63/17 10 Ns 130 Js 3000/17 (LG Freiburg 10. Kleine Strafkammer, Urteil vom 18.Juni 2019, 63/17 10 Ns 130 Js 3000/17)
ECLI:DE:LGFREIB:2019:0618.63.17.10NS130JS30.00
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2019-06-18 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE020 | Whether a Yezidi clergyman present at a reconciliation meeting has the right to refuse to give evidence. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, 4th Criminal Division, Judgement of 15 April 2010 4 StR 650/09 (BGH 4. Strafsenat, Urteil vom 15. April 2010, 4 StR 650/09) |
2010-04-15 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI018GR010 | Whether the application by Greek courts of sharia law instead of Greek civil law to the applicant’s deceased husband’s will constituted discrimination and violated the applicant’s right to property. | Greece | Molla Sali v Greece, App no 20452/14, 19 December 2018
ECLI:CE:ECHR:2018:1219JUD002045214
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2018-12-19 | Mariana Monteiro de Matos |
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| CUREDI013UK017 | Whether the claimant, who was a Turkish woman facing a non-consensual arranged marriage, and who feared persecution at the hands of their family on their discovery that she had breached social norms mandating pre-marital virginity, was, therefore, qualified for protection under the Refugee Convention. | United Kingdom | SSHD v YK (PSG - Women) Turkey CG [2002] UKIAT 05491 |
2002-10-28 | Katia Bianchini; Libby Johnston |
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| CUREDI021IE004 | Whether the ban on assisted suicide contained in s.2(2) of the Criminal Law (Suicide) Act 1993 is contrary to Article 40.3.2 of the Irish Constitution which imposes an obligation on the State to protect and vindicate the “person”? | Ireland | Fleming v Ireland, the Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions [2013] IESC 19 |
2013-04-29 | Michelle Flynn |
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| CUREDI023NL005 | Whether a man, after having concluded an informal customary marriage in Morocco, committed a criminal act of bigamy by subsequently entering into a second marriage in the Netherlands. | Netherlands | Supreme Court, Decision of 1 December 2009 (Hoge Raad 1 december 2009)
ECLI:NL:HR:2009:BJ2779
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2009-12-01 | Susan Rutten |
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| CUREDI057BE006 | Whether a Moroccan judgement granting kafalah can be converted into an adoption in Belgium. | Belgium | Court of Appeal Ghent, Judgement of 14 November 2019 (Hof van beroep Gent, 14 november 2019) |
2019-11-14 | Jinske Verhellen; Yasmina El Kaddouri |
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| CUREDI057BE007 | Whether the kafalah can produce legal effects in Belgium and whether kafalah should be converted into adoption? | Belgium | Court of Cassation 14 September 2015, No. AR C.13.0296.N (Hof van Cassatie 14 september 2015, AR C.13.0296.N) Court of Appeal Ghent 13 March 2013 (Hof van beroep Gent 13 maart 2013) |
2015-09-14 | Yasmina El Kaddouri; Jinske Verhellen |
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| CUREDI041UK015 | 1. Whether women in Afghanistan can form a “particular social group” (PSG) under the 1951 Refugee Convention. 2. Whether the appellant, a woman without a male family member or tribal support, would face a real risk of persecution under the Refugee Convention upon return to Afghanistan. 3. Whether internal relocation is possible for them. | United Kingdom | NS (Social Group – Women - Forced Marriage) Afghanistan CG [2004] UKIAT 00328 |
2004-12-30 | Iulia Mirzac |
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| CUREDI033DE022 | Whether and under what conditions behavioural patterns, ideas, and views rooted in a foreign legal system can be taken into account in the mitigation of punishment. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, 1st Criminal Division, Judgment of 7 November 2006, 307/06 (BGH Urteil vom 7. November 2006, 1 StR 307/06) |
2006-11-07 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE023 | Whether a killing in a blood feud can be insidious (heimtückisch). | Germany | Regional Court Dortmund, Judgement of 7 July 2003, C1/02 (LG Dortmund, Urteil vom 7. Juli 2003, C 1/02)
ECLI:DE:LGDO:2003:0707.14SCHW.C1.02.00
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2003-07-07 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE024 | Whether attempting to kill a person because of a harmless compliment to the perpetrator's girlfriend amounts to murder under aggravating circumstances for base motives. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, 5th Criminal Division, Judgment of 13 November 2019, 5 StR 466/19 (BGH Urteil vom. 13. November 2019 , 5 StR 466/19)
ECLI:DE:BGH:2019:131119U5STR466.19.0
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2019-11-13 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE025 | Whether minors can participate as private accessory prosecutors (Nebenkläger) in child abuse proceedings without parental consent if they fear that their parents’ knowledge of their participation could seriously endanger their lives given the high value commonly attached to honour in their culture of origin. | Germany | Regional Court Berlin, 30. Criminal Division, Decision of 27 November 2009, 530 - 37/09, (530) 5 Ju Js 343/07 (37/09) (LG Berlin, 30. Strafkammer, Beschluss vom 27. November 2009, 530 - 37/09, (530) 5 Ju Js 343/07 (37/09) )
ECLI:DE:LGBE:2009:1127.530.37.09.0A
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2009-11-27 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE026 | Whether there is an obligation of the state to actively provide halal food to Muslim prisoners. | Germany | Higher Regional Court Berlin, 2nd Criminal Division, Order of 14 July 2011 , 2 Ws 248/11 Vollz (Kammergericht, Beschluss vom 14. Juli 2011, 2 Ws 248/11 Vollz)
ECLI:DE:KG:2011:0714.2WS248.11VOLLZ.0A
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2011-04-14 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE027 | Whether prison authorities must allow a prayer rug to be kept in the workroom. | Germany | Regional Court Aachen, Criminal Division with Jurisdiction over Execution of Sentences, Order of 25 June 2014, 33 I StVK 924/13 (LG Aachen, Strafvollstreckungskammer, Beschluss vom 25. Juni 2014, 33 I StVK 924/13)
ECLI:DE:LGAC:2014:0625.33I.STVK924.13.00
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2014-06-25 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE028 | Whether calling a someone a “homosexual” is an insult. | Germany | Regional Court Tübingen, 24. Small Criminal Division, Judgement of 18 July 2012, 24 Ns (13 Js) 10523/11 (LG Tübingen, 24. Kl. Strafkammer, Urteil vom 18.7.2012, 24 Ns (13 Js) 10523/11)
ECLI:DE:LGTUEBI:2012:0718.24NS13JS10523.11.0A
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2012-07-18 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE029 | Whether a father who demands that his son kill his daughter (i.e., the son’s sister) for reasons of honour is punishable under Section 30 of the German Criminal Code for attempted incitement to a crime. | Germany | Regional Court Limburg, Judgment of 23 April 2007, 3 Js 14048/06 – 2 Ks (LG Limburg, Urteil vom 23.April 2007, 3 Js 14048/06 – 2 Ks)
ECLI:DE:LGLIMBU:2007:0423.3JS14048.06.2KS.0A
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2007-04-03 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE030 | 1) Whether the sentence handed down to a perpetrator who treacherously kills his wife’s alleged lover can be mitigated based on the existence of exceptional circumstances. 2) Whether a crisis experienced by the perpetrator as a result of the values of his region of origin can constitute such exceptional circumstances. | Germany | Federal Court of Justice, 1st Criminal Division, Judgment of 10 May 2005, 30/05 (BGH, Urteil vom 10.05.2005, 1 StR 30/05) |
2005-05-10 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE031 | Whether the evening walk of a group of young men in a German city centre, wearing high-visibility vests with the words "Shariah Police" printed on the back, constitutes a violation of the ban on uniforms, as stipulated in Section 3 of Germany's Assembly Act or Versammlungsgesetz. | Germany | Regional Court Wuppertal, Judgment of 27 May 2019, 26 KLs 20/18 (LG Wuppertal, Urteil vom 27. Mai 2019, 26 KLs 20/18)
ECLI:DE:LGW:2019:0527.26KLS8209.50JS180.00
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2019-05-27 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE032 | Whether certain outcomes of an offender’s upbringing, influenced by cultural customs in his or her country of origin, can be regarded as harmful inclinations in the context of juvenile criminal law. | Germany | Regional Court Hamburg, 17th Grand Criminal Division, Judgment of 29 August 2016, 617 KLs 11/16 jug. (LG Hamburg, 17. Große Strafkammer, Urteil vom 29. August 2016, 617 KLs 11/16 jug.)
ECLI:DE:LGHH:2016:0829.617KLS11.16JUG.0A
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2016-08-29 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI033DE033 | Whether a Syrian husband can be deemed not guilty due to his lack of awareness regarding the unlawfulness of engaging in sexual intercourse with his 13-year-old wife. | Germany | Regional Court Saarbrücken, Judgement of 15 July 2019, 3 KLs 27/18 (LG Saarbrücken, Urteil vom 15. Juli 2019, 3 KLs 27/18)
ECLI:DE:LGSAARB:2019:0715.3KLS27.18.00
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2019-07-15 | Silvia Tellenbach |
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| CUREDI041UK020 | 1) Whether the Family Court has jurisdiction to make a Forced Marriage Protection Order (FMPO*) where the person requiring protection is an adult with mental capacity to make relevant decisions and opposing the FMPO, and whether an indefinite ‘passport order’ could be made as part of the FMPO. 2) What approach shall the Family Court take when balancing the right to be protected under Article 3 and right to private and family life under Article 8 of the ECHR. | United Kingdom | Re K (Forced Marriage: Passport Order) 2020 EWCA Civ 190 |
2020-02-21 | Iulia Mirzac |
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| CUREDI075BE001 | Whether a religious Ahmadi marriage can be recognized in Belgium. | Belgium | Court of appeal of Antwerp, Judgement of 9 March 2021, P.20.1171.N/1 (Hof van beroep Antwerpen, 9 maart 2021, P.20.1171.N/1)
ECLI:BE:CASS:2021:ARR.20210309.2N.9
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2021-03-09 | Sarah Den Haese; Jinske Verhellen |
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| CUREDI076NL001 | Whether the Dutch legal system recognizes the validity of an Ethiopian religious marriage. | Netherlands | District Court The Hague, Judgement of 16 January 2019, Case nr. C/09/548540 / FA RK 18-1331 (Uitspraak Rechtbank Den Haag, 16 januari 2019)
ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2019:420
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2019-01-16 | Fei An Kersten |
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| CUREDI076NL002 | Whether the repudiation of a first marriage and the subsequent entering into a second religious marriage, both of which took place in the Netherlands, can be recognized as valid, and whether the invalidity of these acts affects the legal parentage of a child born of the second marriage. | Netherlands | District Court of Zeeland-West Brabant, Judgement of 9 April 2014, C/02/228319 FA RK 10-5659 (Uitspraak van Rechtbank Zeeland-West Brabant, 9 april 2014)
ECLI:NL:RBZWB:2014:9408
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2014-04-09 | Fei An Kersten |
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| CUREDI076NL003 | Whether the Dutch legal system recognizes a temporary marriage contracted outside the Netherlands. | Netherlands | Court of Appeal of Arnhem-Leeuwarden, Judgement of 28 November 2019, 200.255.348/01 (Uitspraak Gerechtshof Arnhem-Leeuwarden, 28 November 2019)
ECLI:NL:GHARL:2019:10284
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2019-11-28 | Fei An Kersten |
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| CUREDI043BE002 | Whether tax legislation that henceforth limits a tax exemption for religious buildings to a specific category of state-funded religious communities, in order to guarantee that the tax exemption is only granted to “authentic” religions, is discriminatory and whether this legislation affects the neutrality obligation to which the government is bound. | Belgium | Constitutional Court ,14 November 2019, no. 178/2019, (Cour constitutionnelle, 14 novembre 2019, n° 178/2019)
ECLI:BE:GHCC:2019:ARR.20191114.4
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2019-11-14 | Adriaan Overbeeke |
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| CUREDI076NL004 | Whether a customary marriage between a man and a woman concluded in Eritrea whilst the woman was 13 years old can be recognized in the Netherlands. | Netherlands | District Court Zeeland-West-Brabant, Judgement of 13 April 2021, case nr. C/02/371219 FA RK 20-1965, ECLI:NL:RBZWB:2021:2525 (Uitspraak Rechtbank Zeeland-West-Brabant, 13 april 2021)
ECLI:NL:RBZWB:2021:2525
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2021-04-13 | Fei An Kersten |
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