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  • Eva Brems

Making subsidiarity work: Struggling with procedural review – A.K. v. Latvia

July 14, 2014

The applicant in AK v Latvia is unhappy with the fact that she gave birth to a daughter with Down’s syndrome. She claims that the she was denied access to important medical information in the form of an antenatal screening test owing to negligence of her gynaecologist, in violation of article 8 ECHR.