TSKHADADZE v. GEORGIA

Published on 16 June 2025 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 15498/24Jimsher TSKHADADZEagainst Georgialodged on 31 May 2024communicated on 29 May 2025SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe application concerns domestic proceedings initiated by the applicant who argued that his dismissal from his position as a bailiff at the Tbilisi City Court – on the grounds of having reached the mandatory retirement age of fifty, as prescribed by a special statutory provision governing that post – constituted age-based discrimination, given that the general statutory retirement age was sixty-five.On 25 May 2016 the applicant instituted proceedings against the Tbilisi City Court before the Administrative Chamber of the same court. Subsequently, in June 2016, he also initiated proceedings before the Constitutional Court of Georgia. In both sets of proceedings, the applicant contended that his dismissal, effected pursu …