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CRPD - 9th session (15 to 19 April 2013) Geneva

Reference

Case Name

Articles invoked

Subject Matter

Procedural issues

Outcome

Documents

CRPD/C/9/D/1/2010

Szilvia Nyusti, Péter Takács and Tamás Fazekas v Hungary

CRPD articles 5, paras. 2 and 3; 9 and 12, para. 5

OPCRPD article 2(e) and (f)

Failure by the State party’s authorities to eliminate discrimination on the ground of disability by a private credit institution and to ensure that persons with visual impairments have an unimpeded access to the services provided by the ATMs on the equal basis with the other clients.

Level of substantiation of a claim; ratione temporis

Views – violation

Full case

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CRPD- 8th session (17 to 28 September 2012) Geneva
Reference	Case Name	Articles invoked	Subject Matter	Procedural issues	Outcome	Documents
CRPD/C/8/D/6/2011	Kenneth McAlpine v. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	CRPD articles 4 (1 (d) and (e); 5 (2); 8 (1 (b); 12 (4); 22 (1); 27 (1 (a) OPCRPD articles 2 (c); (e) and (f)	Redundancy procedure of the author as an employee with diabetes mellitus (type 1 diabetes)	The facts occurred prior to the entry into force of the OPCRPD for the State party; issues have been examined by another procedure of international investigation or settlement; the complaint is manifestly ill-founded or not sufficiently substantiated	Inadmissibility - article 2, paragraph (f), of the Optional Protocol	Full case E \| F \| S \| C \| A

CRPD- 7th session (16 to 20 April 2012) Geneva
Reference	Case Name	Articles invoked	Subject Matter	Procedural issues	Outcome	Documents
CRPD/C/7/D/3/2011	H.M. v Sweden	CRPD articles 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 9; 10; 14; 19; 20; 25; 26 and 28 OPCRPD article 2(e)	Refusal to grant building permission for the construction of a hydrotherapy pool for the rehabilitation of a person with a physical disability on grounds of incompatibility of the extension in question with the city development plan	Non-substantiation of claims;	Views – violation	Full case E \| F \| R \| S \| C \| A

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