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In the case of Hirsi Jamaa and Others v. Italy (application no. 27765/09), [1] before the European Court of Human Rights, the Grand Chamber of the Court found in February 2012 that by returning migrants to Libya, without examining their case, the state of Italy exposed the migrants to the risk of ill-treatment and amounted to a collective expulsion.
Saadi v Italy was a case of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided in February 2008, in which the Court unanimously reaffirmed and extended principles established in Chahal v United Kingdom regarding the absolute nature of the principle of non-refoulement and the obligations of a state under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The Consiglio di Stato ('Council of State') is a legal-administrative consultative body that ensures the legality of public administration in Italy.The council has jurisdiction over acts of all administrative authorities, except when these authorities lack discretionary power, in which case the dispute is considered to be one of civil law.
Chapter XI of the UN Charter also includes a "Declaration on Non-Self-Governing Territories" that the interests of the occupants of dependent territories are paramount and requires member states of the United Nations in control of such territories to submit annual information reports concerning the development of those territories. Since 1946 ...
In 2016, Italy passed a civil unions law to provide all of the rights of marriage to same-sex couples, except for joint adoption. [8] Some legal rights are also provided by the same law to same-sex and heterosexual couples that live in an unregistered cohabitation. Since 1982, Italy has allowed the people to legally change their gender.
The law of Italy is the system of law across the Italian Republic. The Italian legal system has a plurality of sources of production. These are arranged in a hierarchical scale, under which the rule of a lower source cannot conflict with the rule of an upper source (hierarchy of sources). [1] The Constitution of 1948 is the main source. [2]
On 1 January 2024, the Citizens' Income was abolished and replaced by two new subsidies targeting people below a certain level of poverty: the Inclusion cheques (Italian: assegno di inclusione), reserved for those who have to care for underage, elder, or disabled family-members, and the Aid to vocational training (Italian: supporto alla ...
The flag of Italy, one of the national symbols of Italy Articles 13–28 are the Italian equivalent of a bill of rights in common law jurisdictions. The Constitution [ 12 ] recognises habeas corpus and the presumption of innocence ; violations of personal liberties , properties and privacy are forbidden without an order of the Judiciary stating ...