Individual Application

Violation of the right to protect the corporeal and spiritual existence due to dismissal of the request for change of workplace

The applicant, a form teacher serving at the same public institution with her ex-husband, was battered and stabbed by the latter against whom criminal proceedings were initiated. The applicant was then granted a protection order, and an interim measure was indicated and subsequently prolonged several times in her favour. However, her request for change of her workplace was rejected by the incumbent family court as it was an act of administrative nature. The applicant’s challenge was also dismissed.  Finding a violation, the Constitutional Court concluded that the relevant authorities  failed to act in accordance with their positive obligations to take measures so as to protect the applicant who was a victim of violence.