EU Case Law

On 11 January 2017, the Court of Justice (Fifth Chamber) delivered its judgment in case C-289/15, on the interpretation of Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in the...

On 21 December 2017, the Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) delivered its much awaited judgment in joined cases C-203/15 and C-698/15, that follows up to the landmark Digital Rights Ireland...

The Halil Ibrahim Özçelik case is part of a trilogy of cases decided in the same week with Krzystof Marek Poltorak and Ruslanas Kovalkovas case about the extent of what a ‘judicial authority’ is...

The Krzystof Marek Poltorak case is part of a trilogy of cases decided in the same week with Halil Ibrahim Özçelik and Ruslanas Kovalkovas case about the extent of what a ‘judicial authority’...

The Rusulanas Kovalkovas case is part of a trilogy of cases decided in the same week with Krzystof Marek Poltorak and Halil Ibrahim Özçelik case about the extent of what a ‘judicial authority’...

Request was made for a preliminary ruling lodged on 3 December 2014 on the Atanas Ognyanov case. The Sofiyski gradski sad (Sofia City Court, Bulgaria) asked, in essence, the Court of Justice...

According to the Bulgarian Code of Criminal Procedure (NPK), the court assessing a pretrial detention measure may not, in the litigation stage of criminal proceedings, examine whether there are...