by Katrin Welker On 17 May 2016, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided that the publication of a psychological expertise from 1993 concerning a registered psychological expert for court proceedings is not a violation of art. 8 European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR, Applications no. 33677/10 and 52340/10).
The applicant is a psychiatrist and works as a registered psychological expert for court proceedings in custody and child abuse cases since 2000. After an article was published in an online and a printed version of a newspaper, containing excerpts of a psychological assessment of her mental health from the…
