The Practice of Judicial Interaction in the Field of Fundamental Rights

Edited by Federica Casarosa, Centre for Judicial Cooperation, European University Institute, Italy and Visiting Fellow, Masaryk University, Czech Republic and Madalina Moraru, Researcher, Judicial Studies Institute, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Contents:

Foreword by Deirdre Curtin xii
Acknowledgements xvi
1 Judicial interactions in action – a tool for a more powerful
and influential EU Charter of Fundamental Rights 1
Federica Casarosa and Madalina Moraru

PART I HORIZONTAL ISSUES
2 The application of the rights and principles of the Charter
of Fundamental Rights 24
Nina Półtorak
3 Comment: the Charter and its triple challenge: unclear
applicability, a foggy distinction between rights and
principles and a lack of engagement at the national level 54
Gabriel Toggenburg
4 European values and national constitutions: bringing the
EU Charter in from uncharted waters 60
Saša Zagorc and Marjan Kos
5 Comment: the standard of fundamental rights protection
according to the EU Charter: what is the role of national
standards (and courts)? 81
Nicole Lazzerini
6 The potential and the limits of the impact of the Charter on
constitutional jurisprudence 89
Matej Accetto
7 Comment: can the Charter help to protect rights in the
Member States? 108
Gábor Halmai
8 Judicial independence – the EU’s prescription in the
making to the Polish (and other) maladies 113
Karolina Podstawa and Jarosław Gwizdak
9 Comment: Austro-Hungarian partnership? A brief
comparison between an old democracy and a new democracy 137
Edith Zeller
10 Limitations to access to justice and Article 47 of the
Charter: the right to be advised, defended and represented 147
Magdalena Ličková and Joan Solanes Mullor
11 Comment: the EU law on the right to access a lawyer
revisited: proportionality and subsidiarity implications 166
Alexandros-Ioannis Kargopoulos
12 The Lisbon Charter and the Brexit void 173
Bernard McCloskey
13 Comment: Brexit and the diverse functions of the Charter
of Fundamental Rights 198
Stephen Coutts

PART II SECTOR SPECIFIC ISSUES
14 The Charter’s potential in fighting hate and discrimination:
levelling up to international obligations through victim’s rights 206
Rita Gião Hanek and Lilla Farkas
15 Comment: under Article 21 EU Charter the CJEU has,
for the time being, adopted a rather deferential model of
judicial review 231
Raluca Bercea
16 Effectiveness and EU consumer law: the blurriness in
judicial dialogue 236
Mateusz Grochowski and Maciej Taborowski
17 Comment: effectiveness in EU consumer law: towards new triads 258
Paola Iamiceli
18 Judicial interactions upholding the right to be heard of
asylum seekers, returnees and immigrants: the symbiotic
protection of the EU Charter and general principles of EU law 264
Madalina Moraru and Marc Clement
19 Comment: the right to be heard in international protection
proceedings before an Italian judge 289
Martina Flamini

PART III REMEDIES AND SANCTIONS
20 Ne bis in idem – a continuing judicial dialogue 296
Maria Bergström and Hans Sundberg
21 Comment: objective and subjective ne bis in idem– the AY case 319
Florentino-Gregorio Ruiz Yamuza
22 The impact of judicial interactions on the interplay
between administrative and judicial enforcement 325
Federica Casarosa and Raffaele Sabato
23 Comment: checks and balances between the
administration, the executive and the judiciary 347
Markus Thoma
24 The effective protection of collective interests: the
interplay between jurisprudence and legislation 353
Federica Casarosa and Raffaella Calò
25 Comment: collective redress and antitrust law 373
Lavinia Vizzoni
26 The impact of CJEU judgments on national legal systems:
preliminary thoughts on the link with judicial dialogue 379
Fabrizio Cafaggi

Index