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Monitoring Group to follow up ESCR Committee's decision created in Spain

  • Nov 21, 2017
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In July 2017, the ESCR Commitee, issued a decision stating that Spain had violated the right to housing in a case of tenants' eviction. In its recommendations, the Committee urged Spain to:
 
  • Promote legislative and / or administrative measures by which the judge can evaluate the consequences for tenants of the eviction procedure.
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    Reclaiming the Right to Housing

    • Mar 31, 2017
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    Juan Carlos Benito Sánchez
     
    PhD Fellow at University of Louvain (Belgium), Visiting Researcher at UCL (UK)
     
    Twitter: @jcbensan
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    V.M. and Others v. Belgium (Application 60125/11) [7.07.2015 ]

    • Feb 20, 2017
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    Date of the decision: 7 July 2015 / 17 November 2016

     
    Jurisdiction: Council of Europe- European Court of Human Rights
     
     
    Country: Belgium
     

    Subject: Violation of Article 3 of the Convention relating to the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment

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    Spanish case-law placing a temporal limitation on the effects of the invalidity of ‘floor clauses’ included in mortgage loan contracts in Spain is incompatible with EU law

    • Dec 22, 2016
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    Court of Justice of the European Union

    PRESS RELEASE No 144/16

    Luxembourg, 21 December 2016

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    Judgment of 21 December 2016, Gutiérrez Naranjo, C-154/15

    • Dec 21, 2016
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    Date of the ruling : 21 December 2016
     
    Legal basis:  These requests for a preliminary ruling concern the interpretation of, in particular, Article 6 and 7 of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29).
     
     
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    Bukovčanová and Others v. Slovakia (Application no. 23785/07) [05.07.2016]

    • Oct 5, 2016
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    Date of the decision: 5 July 2016. Final judgement 05 October 2016

     

    Jurisdiction: Council of Europe – European Court of Human Rights

     

    Country: Slovakia

     

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    Housing-related Binding Obligations on States from European and International Law

    • Aug 29, 2016
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    Housing-related Binding Obligations on States

    • Aug 29, 2016
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    Housing
    binding obligations
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    Case C-537/12 Banco Popular Español

    • Dec 7, 2013
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    Date of the ruling : 
    Order of 14 November 2013
    Legal basis:  
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