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Eunseo Hong
Eunseo Hong is Courthouse News’ Europe courts correspondent, based in the Netherlands. Originally from South Korea, she covers international courts and legal issues, with a focus on EU legal affairs and the International Court of Justice.
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Challenge to prison tobacco ban goes up in smoke at Europe's rights court
The grounds for dismissal raise a question: If inmates don't follow up with complaints once they're released, how can courts fairly address questions about conditions in detention?
Congo takes Rwanda back to UN court over decades of bloodshed
The Democratic Republic of Congo has asked the International Court of Justice to hold neighboring Rwanda responsible for decades of killings, rape and persecution in its eastern provinces, arguing the conflict that followed the 1994 Rwandan genocide belongs before the U.N.’s highest court.
Ireland’s turf-cutting tradition singled out as flouting nature law
A legal adviser for Europe’s top court found Ireland failed to protect some of its most valuable peat bogs, moving the country closer to a reckoning over conservation and heritage.
European judges fault Ukraine over ouster of constitutional court chief
Ukraine violated the rights of a former constitutional court president after the judges who pursued the case against him also helped decide it, rights court judges found.
Sanctioned ICC judges sue Trump in New York
Three International Criminal Court judges filed the first lawsuit by sanctioned ICC judges themselves, saying U.S. measures targeting their work are unlawful and threaten judicial independence.
Google tells tribunal its shopping fix restored competition, not favoritism
Google claims changes made after the EU’s 2017 antitrust ruling opened shopping results to rivals on equal terms, while comparison-shopping sites say the remedy merely preserved Google’s advantage.
Google says its shopping search is fixed. Rivals beg to differ
A London damages trial opened Monday with competing accounts of whether Google’s post-2017 changes restored competition or preserved its dominance.
EU court says anti-vaccine views are opinions, not protected beliefs
An Italian army officer who refused a Covid-19 vaccine failed to convince Europe’s highest court that his objections amounted to a legally protected belief.