The Highest Amounts of Just Satisfaction: Awards of the European Court of Human Rights to Legal Persons
Abstrakt
The author offers an overview of the ten judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter 'the Court'), in which it awarded to legal persons the highest amounts of just satisfact ion in the Court's history. Th e study is focused on those compensations exceeding one million euros; the highest of the awards, in the Yukos case, is even in billions of euros.
Further, the analysis of these judgments seeks to discover the common and distinct features of the awards. In addition, the author enquires into why the just satisfaction amounts honoured to legal persons are higher than those admitted to natural persons.
Th e article also provides basic information on the compensation mechanism under the European Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter 'the Convention').