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  • Louis Triaille

Clipea and Grosu v. the Republic of Moldova: an increasingly strict control on coercion and living conditions in psychiatric care

February 28, 2025

By Louis Triaille In its Clipea and Grosu v. the Republic of Moldova judgment, handed down on November 19, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) clarifies States’ positive obligations to protect in-patients with mental disabilities from ill-treatment in psychiatric institutions. The judgment illustrates an increasingly strict scrutiny by the ECtHR on institutional psychiatry, […]