2004
DOI: 10.1093/bybil/74.1.409
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Compensating Companies for Non-Pecuniary Damage: Comingersoll s.a. v Portugal and the Ambivalent Expansion of the Echr Scope

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“…209 Emberland has characterised this method of reasoning as relying on the Court's 'belief in the inevitable expansion of the Convention', and noted that this belief 'has the capacity … to prevail over profound disagreement within the Court as to the nature and purpose of ECHR protection.' 210 Although expanding the scope of Convention protection is not necessarily problematic, it is more likely to be where the beneficiaries are corporations rather than human beings. 211…”
Section: Conclusion: Cause For Concernmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…209 Emberland has characterised this method of reasoning as relying on the Court's 'belief in the inevitable expansion of the Convention', and noted that this belief 'has the capacity … to prevail over profound disagreement within the Court as to the nature and purpose of ECHR protection.' 210 Although expanding the scope of Convention protection is not necessarily problematic, it is more likely to be where the beneficiaries are corporations rather than human beings. 211…”
Section: Conclusion: Cause For Concernmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…But it arguably has an "individual substratum". 58 On that assumption, what matters is that non-pecuniary damage has been inflicted on the natural persons behind or mediated by the legal entity. 59 The Court has itself justified such awards by pointing to the "company's reputation, uncertainty in decision-planning, disruption in the management of the company (for which there is no precise method of calculating the consequences) and lastly, albeit to a lesser degree, the anxiety and inconvenience caused to the members of the management team".…”
Section: The "Injured Party"mentioning
confidence: 99%