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Mel Cousins

Selected Works

2008

European Court of Justice

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Overview Of Recent Cases Before The European Court Of Human Rights And The European Court Of Justice (May-September 2008), Mel Cousins Dec 2007

Overview Of Recent Cases Before The European Court Of Human Rights And The European Court Of Justice (May-September 2008), Mel Cousins

Mel Cousins

This note examines the decisions in Kehoe v United Kingdom (2010 06), I v Finland (20511 03) and Case C-228 07 Petersen.


Overview Of Recent Cases Before The European Court Of Human Rights And The European Court Of Justice (October-December 2008), Mel Cousins Dec 2007

Overview Of Recent Cases Before The European Court Of Human Rights And The European Court Of Justice (October-December 2008), Mel Cousins

Mel Cousins

Recent cases before the Court of Justice and Human Rights have focussed on the issue of residence – highlighting once again the importance of this issue in a social security context. First, the Court of Justice has given what is, in effect, its first judgement on the relationship between the EU residence directive (2004/38), EU citizenship and the right to social provisions or social advantages (in this case an education maintenance grant). Given the importance of this case, it is reported in full below (Förster). Secondly, the Court of Justice has again considered the export of benefits for victims of …


Overview Of Recent Cases Before The European Court Of Human Rights And The European Court Of Justice (December 2007-February 2008), Mel Cousins Dec 2007

Overview Of Recent Cases Before The European Court Of Human Rights And The European Court Of Justice (December 2007-February 2008), Mel Cousins

Mel Cousins

This has been a relatively quiet period in the Court of Justice as concerns social security case law. There has been only one important 1408 case (Habelt) in which the Court reflects further on its case law on citizenship (albeit almost without mentioning the concept). The Court also decided the Klöppel case in which it ruled that Regulation 1408/71 required a Member State to take into account, for the purposes of family benefits, the period during which a comparable benefit was received in another Member State as though that period had been completed in its own territory. The Court might …


Overview Of Recent Cases Before The European Court Of Human Rights And The European Court Of Justice (March-May 2008), Mel Cousins Dec 2007

Overview Of Recent Cases Before The European Court Of Human Rights And The European Court Of Justice (March-May 2008), Mel Cousins

Mel Cousins

This article looks at recent cases before the ECHR and ECJ concerning pensions and same-sex couples, citizenship and residence, UN sanctions and social security, and Regulation 1408/71.