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In re 2016 Election of President of Iceland
Procedural history
The Supreme Court of Iceland stated that the court’s authority to review elections processes during Presidential
- 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
Judgment
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
Judgment
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
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
- Language
- 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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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Accessibility
- Regional Jurisprudence
- Language
- 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
- Language
- 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
- Language
- 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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- Regional Jurisprudence
- Language
- 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
- 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
Judgment
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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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- International Treaty
- Language
- 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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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Regional Jurisprudence
- Violation of an International Treaty
- Language
- 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
- Language
- 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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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
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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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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- 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
Judgment
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