The Office considered that it needed a further assessment of her mental health.

As a consequence, the case needed to be taken up by the courts again.

Seven hearings were adjourned because the courts needed to collect additional evidence or for unspecified reasons. Two expert examinations were ordered and lasted for two years and seven months.

(Articles 187, 189 and 261) and Law no. 189/2003 regarding international legal assistance in civil matters (Articles 1-33) empowered the court examining the case to obtain evidence and information needed

The case was to a certain extent complex, which is shown by the extensive case files and the facts that the Frankfurt/Main Regional Court, before reaching its second judgment in 1999, still needed nine

They also argued that they needed the apartment for their own use. The applicants requested that the court provide them with the necessary compensation for the damage they had suffered.

In its decision, the Board examined, inter alia , X’s care needs and whether the applicant – with further assistance – could meet those needs; the parents had separated at that time and there was an agreement

The wording has left room for interpretation of how certain the notifier must be of the child's need for child welfare measures.

Since prisoners continued to enjoy the right to receive information and ideas in prison, any restriction of that right had to meet a “pressing social need”.

Whether their criminal convictions had also met a pressing social need depended on the reasons provided by the national courts and the proportionality of the sentences.

While the interference at issue had met such a need in respect of other statements, the penalty appeared disproportionate.

Further, determination of the need for a sex-change operation was not so technical a process as to justify an exception to the right to a public hearing, especially as the parties did not agree on the

, but in the light of a need to ensure that specialised studies reached European standards.

Persons working for bodies responsible for handling cases of unaccompanied minors and separated minors shall be adequately and regularly trained on the needs of minors.

The right to a socially-owned dwelling guaranteed the citizen “the permanent use of the dwelling for his personal housing needs as well as for the needs of his family”.

Law – Article 3: (a) Lack of medical care in detention – Given the number of serious illnesses from which the applicant suffered, he had clearly been in need of regular care and supervision.

Considering in particular the domestic courts’ need for a very speedy decision, the Court could not find that the applicants had been put at an unfair disadvantage in this respect.

On the other hand, the decision in October 1996 to maintain the ban on the book's distribution, although based on relevant and sufficient reasons, had no longer met a “pressing social need”.

Noting with satisfaction that these draft laws were subject to consultations with the Council of Europe's Department for the execution of the judgments of the European Court;   Recalling that the need