issued by the Registrar of the Court

ECHR 246 (2021)

02.09.2021

Forthcoming judgments and decisions

The European Court of Human Rights will be notifying in writing three judgments on Tuesday
7 September 2021 and ten judgments and / or decisions on Thursday 9 September 2021.

Press releases and texts of the judgments and decisions will be available at 10 a.m. (local time) on
the Court’s Internet site (www.echr.coe.int)

Tuesday 7 September 2021

Sakskoburggotski and Chrobok v. Bulgaria (applications nos. 38948/10 and 8954/17)
The applicants, Simeon Borisov Sakskoburggotski and Maria-Luisa Borisova Chrobok, are Bulgarian
nationals who were born in 1937 and 1933 and live in Sofia and the United States of America
respectively. They are siblings.
In 1943 Mr Sakskoburggotski was crowned Simeon II, King of Bulgaria. Ms Chrobok was a royal
princess. In 1946 the monarchy was abolished by the communist regime, with the royal family
leaving the country. In 2001 Mr Sakskoburggotski formed a political party and became prime
minister of Bulgaria until 2005, with his party remaining in a governing coalition until 2009.
The case concerns the attempts by the applicants to have property that had been under the Crown
restored to them, and a moratorium on the transfer and on the commercial exploitation of former
Crown property imposed in 2009.
Relying on Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the European Convention on
Human Rights, and Articles 13 (right to an effective remedy), 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial) and 14
(prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention, the applicants complain, in particular, of
the domestic courts’ findings in respect of two of the estates they claimed, of the legal moratorium
on any transfer of property and on the commercial exploitation of the properties in their possession,
and of discrimination against them on the basis of origin and social position.

M.P. v. Portugal (no. 27516/14)

The applicant, M.P., is a Portuguese national who was born in 1958 and lives in Madrid (Spain).
M.P. complains about the fact that her former husband was able to access emails which she had
exchanged on a casual dating site and that he produced them in the context of proceedings for
shared parental authority and divorce proceedings, both brought by him. Relying on Article 8 of the
Convention, she alleges that there has been a breach of her right to respect for private life and for
correspondence.

The Court will give its rulings in writing on the following cases, some of which concern issues
which have already been submitted to the Court, including excessive length of proceedings.
These rulings can be consulted from the day of their delivery on the Court’s online database HUDOC.
They will not appear in the press release issued on that day.
Tuesday 7 September 2021
Name Main application number
Vaidelys v. Lithuania 21237/19

Thursday 9 September 2021

Name Main application number
Alibeyova v. Azerbaijan 13731/12
Hasanov v. Azerbaijan 30133/12
Garcia Y Rodriguez v. France 31051/16
Lachaux v. France 20635/17
Neziri v. North Macedonia 55347/17
Ilić and Others v. Serbia 33902/08
Fırat v. Turkey 21988/10
Genç and Others v. Turkey 62917/12
Gerçek and Adıgüzel v. Turkey 62114/11
Shevchenko v. Ukraine 29588/11

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