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The article presents several cases adjudged by European Court of Human Rights including the case of Jalloh v. Germany on violation of Article 3 of the Convention, Iversen v. Denmark on violation of Article 6(1) of the Convention and Gajcsi v. Hungary on violation of Article 5(1) of the convention.

Discusses rulings of the European Court of Human Rights on several lawsuits. Opinion of the court of the lack of violation to the Article 3 of the Convention of the ruling made by the Paris Regional Parole Court ordering an applicant's sentence to be suspended; Order of the court for Sweden to pay damages to the applicant because of the respondent State's violation of Article 5 § 1 of the Convention; Overview of the findings of the court on the case of one prisoner complaining of the lack of medical treatment while he was in prison in Ukraine.

Discusses several cases tried at the European Court of Human Rights, compiled as of December 2003. McGlinchey and others v. the United Kingdom; Van Kuck v. Germany; Kepenerov v. Bulgaria.

Discusses the case on assistance to suicide regarding Mrs. Pretty, a 43-year-old British woman who suffered from an incurable disease. Exceedingly distressing and undignified final stages of the disease; Request to commit suicide with the help of her husband; Request to the Director of Public Prosecution not to prosecute her husband, which was denied; Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.