Joint Stock Company “Transkop”, Bitola to the Constitutional Court
Country: MacedoniaYear: 1997
Court: Constitutional Court
Citation: 77/1998-0-0
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Right to health, Right to social security
The Joint Stock Company ‘Transkop’, Bitola (the Company), challenged two bylaws establishing conditions on the funding of treatment abroad by the Health Insurance Fund. These bylaws were the Rulebook on the conditions and manner for referring the insurees to treatment abroad (the Rulebook) and the Resolution of the Minister of Health no.02-1439/1 delivered on February …Read more
R v. Gloucestershire County Council and Anr., ex parte Barry
Country: United KingdomYear: 1997
Court: House of Lords
Citation: [1997] 2 All ER 1 (HL); [1997] 2 W.L.R. 459; [1997] A.C. 584
Health Topics: Disabilities, Health systems and financing
Human Rights: Right to health
Michael Barry was an 81-year-old man who suffered from a number of disabilities and lived alone within the Gloucestershire County Council (the Council). Barry was originally assessed as requiring a number of home care services, but after budgetary cuts the Council informed Barry that they would no longer be able to perform cleaning and laundry …Read more
Macedonian Trade Union Association to the Constitutional Court
Country: MacedoniaYear: 1996
Court: Constitutional Court
Citation: 23/1996-0-0
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to social security
The Macedonian Trade Union Association and the Trade Union of Construction, Construction Material Industry and Design of the Republic of Macedonia challenged the constitutionality of Articles 11, 16 paragraph 3 and 203-a of the Law on amending and supplementing the Law on Health Care (“the Law”). Article 11 of the Law required insured workers to …Read more
Case 56/1995 (IX.15.) AB
Country: HungaryYear: 1995
Court: Constitutional Court
Health Topics: Health systems and financing
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Right to health, Right to property
Petitioners challenged several amendments to statutes regulating employee benefit entitlements, which were inexorably connected to their social security entitlements under Hungary’s “mixed system” of social security (insurance and solidarity). The challenged amendments (1) provided that an employee was entitled to 25 sick days per year, for 5 of which she was not entitled to remuneration, …Read more
Askan Das Batra v. Attorney General
Country: ZambiaYear: 1993
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: (1993-1994) Z.R. 41 (S.C.)
Health Topics: Aging, Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to social security
The Appellant was employed by the Zambian Government as an accountant with the Ministry of Legal Affairs. Upon recommendation for further evaluation of his medical condition he travelled to the United Kingdom where he underwent elective heart surgery. He then claimed reimbursement of his medical expenses from his employer under the Conditions of Service for …Read more
Feldbrugge v. The Netherlands
Country: NetherlandsYear: 1986
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: App. No. 8562/79, 8 Eur. H.R. Rep. 425 (1986).
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Occupational health
Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial
The applicant (Mrs. Feldbrugge), a Netherlands citizen, was removed from sickness benefits she had been receiving through health insurance because a medical examination had shown that she was again fit to work. Upon taking her case to the Appeals Board, the President ruled against her based on the medical testimony of the Board’s medical staff. …Read more