International Survey of Family Law 2018

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ID19909679
AuthorsNajma Moosa (0000-0002-3174-1923), Margaret F Brinig, Julia L Sloth-Nielsen, Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi (0000-0003-1370-6718)
EditorsMargaret Brinig
Year2018
Publication date2018-09-28
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueInternational Survey of Family Law 2018 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherIntersentia (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/9781780687780
OpenAlexW3134508086
ISBN9781780687780
LanguageEN
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In the case of Zorica Jovanovic v. Serbia, initiated before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in April 2008, the applicant complained of the continuing failure of the Serbian authorities to provide her with any information about the real fate of her son who had allergedly died while in the care of a state-run hospital or indeed with any other redress. Not only did the ECtHR \ndecide that the applicant's right to family life guaranteed by Article 8 of the \nEuropean Convention was violated, but it also held that the respondent \nstate must, within a year from the date on which the judgment became final, \ntake all appropriate measures, preferably by means lex specialis, to secure \nthe establishment of a mechanism aimed at providing individual redress to \nall parents in a situation such as, or sufficiently similar to, the applicant's. \nIt is important to emphasise that hers was not a single case. According to some \ninformation, there are around 1,500 reported cases of babies missing from \nmaternity wards, although there is no data on the exact number of cases. \nState authorities in Serbia, however, had still done nothing either to investigate and \nprosecute those cases or to adopt legal mechanisms to resolve them

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