| Abstract [eng] |
Human rights are one of the most vital grounds of nowadays mankind and therefore, needs to be protected properly. The 1950 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms provides protection for human rights in the European level. The protection of property rights is taking place in this paper so the first Article of the First protocol is being analysed. The paper analyses the authentic object of the property right, which is situated in the 1 st. Article of the First protocol. The search of the criterion, which could help to put particular asset into the category of “possession”, is being made. In order to understand the protection of property rights better, the general conception of property rights is analysed in this paper by comparing continental and common law systems. Further in the paper, the property rights protection mechanism provided in the 1 st. Article of the First protocol is being analysed. The Court stated that the above-mentioned article lays three distinct rules of property rights protection: deprivation rule, property control and other interference with property rights. Every single rule and its justifying conditions are discussed in the paper. The justifying conditions laid down in the First protocol Article 1 are analysed together with the conditions provided by the case-law of the Court. The research is mainly based on the most “popular“ judgements, which created the case-law of the Court and atrracted the attention of law experts. The plot of variuos cases is given in order to make the research more clear and interesting. Lastly, the paper shows the importance of the case-law in the constitutional justice of the Republic of Lithuania. |
