Public hearing before the Grand Chamber in Gherghina v. Romania

In the good tradition of this blog, news come very late.

Take this for example, the Grand Chamber hearing in the case Gherghina v. Romania, which took place on 12 November 2014, which I have not yet reported on here, and which is my third Grand Chamber hearing in slightly longer than one year.

The case concerns the Romanian authorities' failure to ensure universities were accessible and that reasonable accommodation was offered to the applicant, a young man using a wheelchair. The hearing focused mostly on the existence and nature of remedies in Romania for the type of claims raised by the applicant, as well as on other interesting issues such as what constitutes acceptable reasonable accommodation, the implications of costs for characterising the applicant's claims or types of discrimination. I represented the applicant together with my dear friend Horatiu Rusu, lecturer in human rights at the Sibiu University. We expect to receive the judgment during the first half of 2015

The webcast of the hearing is available HERE.