The early retirement of Hungarian judges in 2011 was not against the law, the European Court of Human Rights decided on Thursday. The Strasbourg based body decided about the case originally initiated by 160 judges who argued that the lowering of the retirement age from 70 to 62 was against the three articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, namely the principle of fairness, non-discrimination and the protection of private property. The judges had no access to judicial remedies and the amended laws discriminated against based on their age.