It is summer and Walter and Johan take some distance from current affairs to look at an institution that runs like a thread throughout this podcast series: the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. With a world in flux, that Court is also in flux....
Fake news: finally time for a firm European response?
'Countering the spread of disinformation is undeniably going to be one of the big challenges of the coming years and it should be clear that this challenge is best tackled at European level,' write Johan Heymans and Yasmina El Kaddouri. Read all other contributions of our summer series The Thinkers of Knack.be here:...
The reason for searching your vehicle must be formulated with sufficient precision by the officer.
In a recent judgment of 7 June 2022, the Court of Cassation expanded the scope of Article 29 of the Police Act, or at least added a condition to the article that the legislator did not actually impose. Article 29, paragraph 1 and 2 of the Police Act reads as follows:...
The choice of inheritance, make it conscious
A person dies and his/her estate falls open. It is sometimes thought that, as a legal successor, one is obliged to accept the inheritance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every heir has a threefold right of choice: he can accept the inheritance pure, accept it under reservation of inventory or reject it. A conscious...
Episode 11 - Religious freedom
From burkinis to unanaesthetised slaughter: in search of straightforwardness in decisions The topic of religious freedom has been in the news twice this month. Last week, with the rejection in the Brussels parliament of a ban on the unanaesthetised slaughter of animals. And a second time on 7 June, when the...