ECtHR 8 November, app. no. 64480/19 (Moraru – v – Romania), Other Forms of Discrimination

Summary

Refusal of application because the applicant is too short found discriminatory based on size (art. 14 ECHR). The ECtHR’s summary is available here.

Decision

The Court, unanimously

• Declares the application admissible;
• Holds that there has been a violation of Article 14 of the Convention taken together with Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention.
• Holds
  • (a) that the respondent State is to pay to the applicant, within three months from the date on which the judgment becomes final in accordance with Article 44 § 2 of the Convention, EUR 7,500 (seven thousand five hundred euros), plus any tax that may be chargeable, in respect of non-pecuniary damage, to be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable at the date of settlement;
  • (b) that from the expiry of the above-mentioned three months until settlement simple interest shall be payable on the above amounts at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points;
• Dismisses the remainder of the applicant’s claim for just satisfaction.