Infondatezza manifesta... ma solo per alcuni: riflessioni a margine del caso Charlie Gard

With a decision adopted on 28 June 2017, the European Court of human rights declared manifestly ill-founded the application made by Charlie Gard’s parents against the authorization to suspend the life-sustaining treatment of their son. The article argues that, while this kind of decision allowed a rap- id response to the applicants’ query, it presents a number of controversial profiles. In fact, decisions on the admissibility can be adopted by ‘a majority’ of the Chamber’s members, without a clear indica- tion of the number and positions of judges in disagreement with the majority. The particularly sensi- tive issues of the Gard case would have deserved a more accurate analysis and major transparency.