Protecting the reputation of a legal person through the case law of the CJEU and ECtHR

Abstract

This paper is part of a broader research which is dealing with the reputation of the legal persons on an international level. Implicitly, the protection of the natural persons’s rights is evident. On the other hand, the protection of the law in cases of the legal persons is rather unique. The research aimed whether we can find any court cases related to reputation of the legal person among the cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) or the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). If yes, what is behind the court cases and what were the bases of the disagreement between the parties. Along the way, during the different court cases of the CJEU and the ECHR there were several steps protecting the legal persons, similar to the natural persons, in terms of the reputation.