Abstract
On 16 June 2015 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has delivered the long awaited final judgment in the case of Delfi AS v. Estonia, deciding on the liability of an online news portal for the offensive comments posted by its readers below one of its online news articles.
The Grand Chamber has come to the conclusion that the Estonian courts' finding of liability against Delfi had been a justified and proportionate restriction on the news portal's freedom of expression.