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Axel Springer is a company, not a person or persons. Companies don't have human rights, so they obviously cannot appeal to the ECHR. As for exceptional cases,
by guitarbill 9y ago
Axel Springer is a company, not a person or persons. Companies don't have human rights, so they obviously cannot appeal to the ECHR.
As for exceptional cases, I think the gist is any case that can involve human rights violations is exceptional, as the majority of cases don't even get into the territory of potentially violating the European Convention on Human Rights.
- _nalply 9y agoIt's a bit complicated. In civil law jurisdictions a company can be a «person». As such the company can file complaints or be accused of something. The law defines whether an organisation can be viewed as a person. For example in Switzerland associations are legal persons as long as their organs are operative. Organs of a legal person are for example the board, the general assembly and others. This means, a company can suffer from a violation of protected rights. An example is the right for information (a form of free speech). Whether the ECHR would ever accept or has already accepted a complaint from a company I don't know. After all companies aren't really humans.
- guitarbill 9y agoActually, turns out I'm wrong. Funnily enough, Axel Springer AG has previously sued the German government before the EHCR and won: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22dmdocnumber%22:[%22900156%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-109034%22] https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22dmdocnumber%22:[%22900156...} Who knew!