A.L.-B. v. POLAND

• ECLI: ECLI:CE:ECHR:2022:0630DEC000380121
• Counsel: N/A
• Date: 30 June 2022
• Application Number: 3801/21
• Court: First Section Committee (European Court of Human Rights)
• Applied Rules: 3;8;37;37-1

FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 3801/21
A.L.-B.
against Poland

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 30 June 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Alena Poláčková, President,
Raffaele Sabato,
Davor Derenčinović, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 8 January 2021,

Having regard to the decision to grant the applicant anonymity, in accordance with Rule 47 § 4 of the Rules of the Court,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant, Ms A. L.-B., was born in 1984.

The applicant’s complaints under Articles 3 and 8 of the Convention concerning the restrictions on legal abortion on the ground of foetal defects and the alleged formal shortcomings of the legal basis under Article 8 of the Convention were communicated to the Polish Government (“the Government”), who submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicant, who was invited to submit her own observations. No reply was received to the Registry’s letter.

By letter dated 16 November 2021, sent...