Published on 19 April 2021

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 59932/15 Mihaela Radkova MARINOVA against Bulgaria lodged on 24 November 2015 communicated on 31 March 2021

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns a complaint, under Articles 6 § 1 and 8 of the Convention, about the impossibility for the applicant to have her claim for the establishment of paternity examined in court, due to the strict application of a time-limit which did not account for the specific circumstances of her case.

QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES

Has there been a violation of the applicant ’ s right to respect for her private life protected under Article 8 of the Convention? In particular, was the application of the time-limit by the national courts, which deprived the applicant of a judicial determination of her biological paternity, proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued (see Röman v. Finland , no. 13072/05, § 60, 29 January 2013, and, mutatis mutandis , Doktorov v. Bulgaria , no. 15074/08 , § 33, 5 April 2018)?