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In re 2016 Election of President of Iceland

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The Supreme Court of Iceland stated that the court’s authority to review elections processes during Presidential
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Question Presented
Whether the prohibition of voters from signing support petitions for multiple candidates conflicts with Act. No. 36. 1945. Whether the plaintiff has a cause of action before elections take place.
Legal Issue(s)
  • Candidate Registration
  • Civil Procedure
Country
Iceland
Language of Decision
  • Icelandic
Date of decision
Jun 15, 2016
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In re the Icelandic Presidential Election of 2012

Country
Iceland
Question Presented
Whether the inability of disabled voters to cast secret ballots is sufficient grounds for annulling election results.
Legal Issue(s)
  • Accessibility
  • Electoral Administration Irregularities
  • Electoral Integrity
Country
Iceland
Language of Decision
  • Icelandic
Date of decision
Jun 6, 2012
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In re Constituent Assembly Elections of 2011

Country
Iceland
Question Presented
Whether the right to secrecy was violated in the 2011 election sufficient to annul the election results.
Legal Issue(s)
  • Electoral Administration Irregularities
  • Electoral Integrity
Country
Iceland
Language of Decision
  • Icelandic
Date of decision
Jan 6, 2011
Judgment
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Election Dispute Resolution Report 2020

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Denmark, Iceland, Italy, partially Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland (shared with the Supreme Federal Tribunal). 66 Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Italy
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  • Election Dispute Resolution
  • Legal Frameworks
  • Regional Jurisprudence
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  • English
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Sitaropoulos v. Greece

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the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Republic of Moldova, Monaco,
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  • Election Accessibility
  • Regional Jurisprudence
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  • English
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When Are Elections Good Enough? Validating or Annulling Election Results

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an election is illustrated by the annulment of the 2010 Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election. The Icelandic Supreme Court invalidated the election of Assembly members based
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Legal Issue and/or Topic
  • Election Annulments
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  • English
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When Are Elections Good Enough? Validating or Annulling Election Results

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an election is illustrated by the annulment of the 2010 Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election. The Icelandic Supreme Court invalidated the election of Assembly members based
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Legal Issue and/or Topic
  • Election Annulments
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  • English
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Yumak & Sadak v. Turkey

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thresholds are applied only to a restricted number of seats (in Norway and Iceland, for example). Thresholds for parties and thresholds for coalitions may be
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  • Legal Frameworks
  • Regional Jurisprudence
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  • English
  • French
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New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa

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the negative right not to be coerced to associate was at issue. In Iceland a licence to operate a taxicab was granted subject to membership of a
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Question Presented
Whether the requirement of political party membership for candidate eligibility is constitutional.
Legal Issue(s)
  • Candidate Registration
Country
South Africa
Language of Decision
  • English
Date of decision
Jun 11, 2020
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

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HUNGARY:' POUR LA HONGRIE: ' 3a PORHUNCRÎA: KÂROLY CSATORDAY March 25, 1969 FOR ICELAND: POUR L'ISLANDE: 3a POR ISLANDIA: HANNES KJARTANSSON 30 Dec. 1968 FOR INDIA:
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  • International Treaty
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  • English
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Elections on Trial: The Effective Management of Election Disputes and Violations

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to the independence and impartiality of judges or arbiters making decisions on 6 Icelandic Human Rights Centre, The Right to Due Process, http://www.humanrights.is/en/human-rightseducation-proj
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  • Election Dispute Resolution
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  • English
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Incal v. Turkey

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requirements of paragraph 2 (see, mutatis mutandis, the Thorgeir Thorgeirson v. Iceland judgment of 25 June 1992, Series A no. 239, p. 27, § 64). 54.
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  • Regional Jurisprudence
  • Violation of an International Treaty
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  • English
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights v. Republic of Peru

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(United Kingdom v. Iceland), Jurisdiction of the Court, Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 1973, p. 7, para. 12; Fisheries Jurisdiction (United Kingdom v. Iceland), Merits, Judgment
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Legal Issue and/or Topic
  • Election Annulments
  • Judicial Independence
  • Regional Jurisprudence
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  • English
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In re Magyar Ketfarku Kutya Part v. Hungary

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about the way they cast their ballots. 41. Two member States (Albania and Iceland) have explicitly regulated the issue of revealing voting choices through the
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  • Legal Frameworks
  • Regional Jurisprudence
Language
  • English
  • French
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Electoral Justice: The International IDEA Handbook

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box 5.4) and Switzerland, this category should include the EDRSs of Belgium, Iceland, the Netherlands and Norway, as well as certain Central and East European
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Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors, and Lawyers

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citizenship to their children”.169 It also welcomed the 1998 amendment to Icelandic legislation, which addressed “the unequal rights of men and women with
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  • Election Dispute Resolution
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  • English
  • Portuguese
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Gandhi v. Narain

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majority of two-thirds or more of the members present. Article 46 of the Iceland Constitution provides that the Althing itself decides whether its members are
Question Presented
Whether legislative acts passed during the appeals process may be retroactively applied to validate an election currently in the courts.
Legal Issue(s)
  • Disputing Results
  • Judicial Independence
Country
India
Language of Decision
  • English
Date of decision
Jul 11, 1975
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