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Last year, advisers to the Chancellor of Justice made eight inspection visits to various nursing care establishments in Estonia. The inspections revealed that in several of these, patients may be held in locked rooms without reason and treated without appropriate consent and their dignity may not always be guaranteed.
Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder has sent a proposal to Pärnu-Jaagupi Nursing Home that they stop locking the doors of patients’ rooms. The Chancellor of Justice emphasises that Pärnu-Jaagupi Nursing Home and other similar institutions have no legal grounds to lock people in their rooms.
Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder asked the Riigikogu to pay attention to the continuing impact of invalid excessive state fees on justice proceedings.
The ‘Child Well-Being’ compendium prepared by Statistics Estonia, which gives an overview of the situation of Estonian children, will be presented at the Office of the Chancellor of Justice today. The Ombudsman for Children feels that it highlights the issues that need more attention to ensure that children have a good life in Estonia.
Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder has submitted to the Riigikogu a proposal to make the Imprisonment Act comply with the Constitution.
The Overview of the Chancellor of Justice describes the Chancellor’s activities as national preventive mechanism (OPCAT) and ombudsman for children. In addition, the overview also contains information about the general proceeding statistics of the year 2012.
For further information, please see: Overview 2012
The Chancellor of Justice as Ombudsman for Children in Estonia has called on candidates in the local government elections to pay more attention to the needs, requests and opinions of children and young people. Discussions held with schoolchildren by advisers to the Chancellor of Justice as Ombudsman for Children indicated that the children are eager to have a say in the organisation of local life.
The Chancellor of Justice will meet with the President of the Riigikogu Ene Ergma at 11 am today, on 20 May, in order to present the 2012 Overview of the Chancellor of Justice to the Riigikogu.
The Chancellor of Justice is of the position that the decision of Rae Rural Municipality Government to suspend the payment of 120 euros in support to a resident of the municipality for the reason that she owed the municipality 2 euros and 50 cents is unconstitutional.
The Chancellor of Justice is of the position that the established rates of extraction charges and water abstraction charges are contrary to the principle of legitimate expectation arising from the Constitution, due to which the Chancellor of Justice has made a proposal to the Government of the Republic to bring the regulations into conformity with the Constitution.
The Chancellor of Justice, as the Ombudsman for Children, has prepared an analysis based on inspection of substitute homes (formerly children’s homes) which provides an overview of how the rights of children raised in such homes in Estonia are guaranteed. The Ombudsman is of the opinion that minimum standards should be established for substitute homes.
The Ombudsman for Children has cooperated with specialists to prepare a counselling booklet on ways of obtaining psychological and psychiatric help.
The Chancellor of Justice has sent a memorandum to the Regional Minister pointing out that the regulation of cemetery financing in the Cemeteries Act is inadequate.
The Office of the Chancellor of Justice published a summary of the Monitoring of the Rights of the Child and Parenting 2012 in English.
Monitoring maps out the society's awareness and attitudes concerning topics related to children's rights, inclusion of parents and being a parent. The study was carried out both among children and parents. The monitoring was conducted by the Centre for Policy Studies Praxis and it was financed from the Fund of Wise Decisions.
The Chancellor of Justice submitted an application to the Supreme Court to declare invalid the provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure Implementation Act which excludes regular judicial control on postponement of notification of person concerned about secret surveillance activities carried out before 2013.
The Chancellor of Justice Mr. Indrek Teder turned to the Supreme Court with an application to declare the restrictions on the establishment of pharmacies enacted in the Medicinal Products Act [1] unconstitutional.
Estonia has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and has according to the Article 19 committed to take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse. Also the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has emphasized the importance of prohibiting corporal punishment of the child at home, school and in other institutions.
The Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder is convinced that the Citizenship Act[1] is not in the conformity with the Constitution[2], since youngsters who have permanently lived in Estonia, but whom a residence permit was not applied for under the age of 15 or was not renewed in time, are not allowed to obtain Estonian citizenship.
The Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder is convinced that the Tax and Customs Board’s practice in taxing importation of fuel in a standard fuel tank of a motor vehicle at the frontier crossing points of the Estonian-Russian border is not in conformity with the principles of legality and good administrative practice.
The Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder is convinced that the immunity of the members of the Riigikogu Mr. Lauri Laasi and Mr. Priit Toobal were unconstitutionally violated when searches of their premises in the frame of a criminal case were conducted without the consent of the Riigikogu.