Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 06/22/2021

Subject: The judgment which found the violation of the Convention for the lack of information given to a four years’ old child on his duty to tell the truth and on his right not to witness against his father, which led to the exclusion of his testimony and to the acquittal of his father from the charge of sexual abuse

Parties: R.B. c. Estonia

Classification: Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing