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22. On 5 May 2003 the applicant company challenged this decision before the Constitutional Court. Referring to Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1, it contended that the seizure of its shares had been ordered sine lege, that its property rights were restricted for
3 September 2005
24. In the course of the initial and additional inspections the officials who were alleged to have beaten the applicant were questioned by the Prosecutor’s Office. In particular, the head of the colony, B., in his statements on 13 July and
the same date
89. He had been systematically subjected to torture while in detention. He had been able to see through an aperture in the cell-door window that the prisoner in cell no. 8 was subjected to more intensive torture then he. He had seen him being dragged along by four police officers, two of them supporting him by the arm...
14 September 1999
24. On 17 February 2000 the Angarsk Town assistant prosecutor dismissed the complaint, finding no prima facie case of ill-treatment. The assistant prosecutor concluded that the applicant had already had injuries prior to his arrest and that those injuries had resulted from his fight with K. The assistant prosecutor ba...
before 1 June 2005
26. On 15 May 2007 the prosecutor responsible for the prison the applicant was serving his sentence in wrote to the trial court and asked for guidance in calculating the date of the applicant’s possible early release. The prosecutor stated that, for offences committed
21 February 2005
75. The Supreme Court examined the applicants’ arguments related to the alleged lack of impartiality of Judge A.K., which had allegedly ensued from his involvement in the passage of the 2005 Amendment. In that connection, the court noted that the bill had been introduced on
A week later
51. In June 2005 Mr Ya., senior officer of the Organised Crime Unit at the relevant time, made a written statement (see also paragraphs 15 and 31 above), indicating that Mr V. had named the applicants as his accomplices in a number of offences. Thereafter, the second applicant was brought from Kurgan remand centre no....
seven to twelve[1] years
32. The court allowed the application and ordered the applicant’s detention, accepting the GPO’s reasoning and also finding that there were no personal circumstances pertaining to the applicant that would prevent his being held in custody, that the applicant had sought to evade investigative actions and decisions of t...
10 June 1994
36. An appeal on points of law was lodged against the Indictment Division's judgment but an application by the prosecution for its appeal on points of law to be declared immediately admissible was dismissed by the President of the Criminal Division of the Court of Cassation on
24 May 2007
15. In a subsequent constitutional complaint lodged on 23 March 2007 the applicant argued, inter alia, that the judgment of the Pula County Court of 30 June 2006 had not been properly served on him and that his right to a remedy had thus been violated. On
13 February 2008
11. On 15 November 2007 the applicant company filed a request for a change of means of enforcement in view of the failure of the authorities to enforce the judgment on the debtor’s movable assets. It proposed that the enforcement be carried out by means of seizure and sale of a family house registered in the name of t...
26 July 2011
18. By submissions dated 27 June 2011, received by the Regional Court on 29 June 2011, the applicant lodged an appeal against the Regional Court’s decision, for which he submitted further statements of grounds on 15, 19, 22, 25 and
21 June 1996
38. In respect of the decisions of 28 March and 30 April 1996 to carry out technical examinations, the applicant requested to provide him with copies of some documents. The copies were provided to him on
19 February 2007
6. The applicant, a former girlfriend of the Prime Minister at the time, wrote an autobiographical book about her relationship with the Prime Minister. The book described a period of nine months in the applicant’s life when, as a single mother, she dated the Prime Minister, who had earlier divorced his wife. The book ...
28 November 2017
104. There have been relatively few applications to the Court under Article 18 in conjunction with Article 5 (for a summary of the Court’s case‑law see the recent judgment in Merabishvili v. Georgia [GC], no. 72508/13, §§ 264-282,
11 July 2000
9. Also in 2000 the former director of the first applicant company challenged the privatisation in the courts. However, his action was dismissed by a final judgment of the Economic Court of the Republic of Moldova of
12 March 2003
12. As shown by an extract from the registration log drawn up in the detention unit of the Chernoyarskiy District Police Department and presented by the Government, on 9 March 2003, at approximately 7.25 p.m., an ambulance was called to the applicant, who was complaining about a headache. The ambulance was called agai...
10 August 2007
14. On the same date the Dedovichi District Court examined the investigator’s application. According to the applicant, he argued before the District Court that the application, being a repeated attempt to remand him in custody, was contrary to the rules of criminal procedure. The District Court authorised the applican...
30 May 2001
27. The Government maintained that force had never been used against prisoners and specifically against the applicants. Moreover, they insisted that none of the applicants detained in Zamkova Prison during the training exercises and the subsequent searches on
27 March 2004
30. The applicant submitted to the Court a copy of a letter from the Internal Security Office of the State Police, dated 25 April 2007. It was sent in response to the applicant’s submission of 12 March 2007, mentioned above. The letter stated that the human resources inspection division had requested information from ...
17 May 2002
10. On 29 May 2000 the applicant lodged a request with the Râşcani District Court seeking enforcement of the judgment in her favour. The latter did not reply, but sent the enforcement warrant to a Bailiff only on
twenty-four years old
8. Mr Petar Hristov Bekirski (“the first applicant”) and Mrs Kate Dimitrova Bekirska (“the second applicant”) are the parents of Mr Bekirski, while Mrs Krasimira Petrova Bekirska (“the third applicant”) is his sister. Mr Bekirski was born in 1972 and was
10 January 2000
27. On the same date the investigators questioned the applicant’s sister Mobarik Inderbiyeva who stated that on 12 February 2000 the applicant had returned home with the remains of their sisters Shema and Shamani who had been blown up by military servicemen with a flamethrower on
20 July 2011
23. As it appeared that nothing was happening in the case, the applicants sought information on the progress of the investigation by means of letters sent by ACCEPT on 25 September 2006, 28 March 2007 and
12 January 1989
15. Throughout 1988 the demonstrations calling for unification continued. The district of Lachin was subjected to roadblocks and attacks. The clashes led to many casualties, and refugees, numbering in the hundreds of thousands on both sides, flowed between Armenia and Azerbaijan. As a consequence, on
31 October 2001
14. On 16 January 2002 the Supreme Administrative Court examined the merits of the applicant’s complaints, dismissing his request to quash the decision of the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court of
23 September 2004
10. On 30 June 2004 the case file was transferred to the Regional Court. On 13 August 2004 the Regional Court remitted it to the District Court, as the decision of 23 February 2004 was delivered by the judge who had previously been challenged for bias by the applicant. Following a statement by the judge concerned as t...
recent decades
18. On 7 June 2007 the Rostock Court of Appeal dismissed further appeals (sofortige weitere Beschwerde) subsequently brought by the applicants. In their appeals, the applicants, represented by counsel, had submitted that the slogans on the banners had been addressed to the police and the authorities, urging them to en...
5 January 2000
11. On 13 February 2002 the Tsentralnyy District Court of Voronezh granted the applicant’s request to resume enforcement proceedings. In this decision the court dismissed the bailiff’s argument that an action against the Administration of the Voronezh Region was necessary to secure execution of the judgment against th...
11 July 2002
23. Referring to section 4 of the Immigration Act 1988 (pursuant to which the Act ought to be applied consistently with Norway’s international legal obligations aimed at strengthening the foreigner’s position) and to section 4 of the Human Rights Act, which incorporated the Convention into Norwegian domestic law, the ...
9 November 1998
18. By letter of 16 April 2003, the Minister of Immigration and Integration (Minister voor Immigratie en Integratie; the successor to the Deputy Minister of Justice) withdrew the decision of 30 December 1999. As the applicant was allowed – pursuant to the ruling of
18 October 2001
11. On 14 January 2000 R. I. lodged an appeal on points of law with the Supreme Court (Vrhovno sodišče) regarding the part of the judgment amending the first-instance court’s judgment in favour of the applicant. On
9 January 2006
13. On 16 November 2005 the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, finding no errors in the facts or law. Noting the applicants’ complaints, the court reiterated that the expropriation of the plot had been in the public interest, namely with a view to the construction of objects for research into and the exploitation of ...
29 May 2001
12. On 21 May 2001 the Jelenia Góra Regional Court applied under Article 263 § 4 of the Code of Criminal Proceedings to the Wrocław Court of Appeal for the applicant’s detention to be extended beyond the statutory time-limit of two years. On
between 16 November 1994 and 12 January 1995
90. In its judgment of 29 January 1998 the District Court, notwithstanding that it considered H.'s behaviour at the time of the initial care order not to have been normal for her age, found that the evidence did not show that the applicant had committed the sexual acts that he had been charged with. It thus rejected t...
27 July 2004
21. The Government maintained that on 28 July 2004 Y left the hospital at her own request due to a planned wedding ceremony. In this respect they submitted a copy of Y’s medical file, which in its relevant part reads as follows: “
up to twelve years
13. On 23 July 2010 a judge of the Golosiyivskyy Court ruled to extend the term of the applicant’s arrest to ten days. The reasoning was as follows: “Having studied the materials of the criminal case, having heard the explanations of the suspect, the opinion of the prosecutor who supported [the investigator’s] applica...
19 June 2000
7. On 22 March 2000 the applicant was arrested. On 24 March 2000 he was remanded in custody by the Gliwice District Court (Sąd Rejonowy) on suspicion that he had killed his mother. His pre‑trial detention was subsequently extended by the Katowice Regional Court (Sąd Okręgowy) on
29 July 1881
14. On 14 May 1997 Mr and Mrs Aubrac brought a private prosecution by direct summons in the Seventeenth Division of the Paris tribunal de grande instance. The summons contained fifty extracts from the book (eighteen from Barbie’s written submissions and thirty-two from the first applicant’s own text). The three applic...
24 November 2004
37. On 13 November 2006 the applicant informed the Administrative Court that he wanted to pursue his administrative action. Moreover, he indicated that he wanted to extend it to the second-instance decision of the Appeal Council of the Executive Council of the Croatian Pension Fund of
21 July and 9 August 2005
11. On the other hand, on 21 July and 9 and 25 August 2005, when the appeals on points of law were reviewed by the County Court, the applicant was not brought before the judges. On each occasion the registrar of the County Court had telephoned Colibaşi Prison, where the applicant was held at the time. According to the...
15 December 2000
16. The General Prosecutor lodged an extraordinary appeal (recurs în anulare) against the 29 January 1998 judgment, claiming that by issuing a decision in the applicant parish’s case the Cluj Court of Appeal had breached first the provisions of Decree no. 126/1990 and second the Constitution, which provides that publi...
25 October 2001
11. On 14 September 2001 the District Court returned the case to the prosecutor for further investigation. It found, inter alia, that the prosecutor had unlawfully prevented the applicant’s counsel from representing him. It appears that the Supreme Court quashed this decision on
October 2009
22. On 3 November 2008 the applicants sold their shares of the agricultural association to another member of the association and on 3 November 2009 the District Agricultural Authority closed the proceedings on the applicants’ partition request and in
30 March 2007
37. Subsequently, the applicant took part in a number of investigative procedures, notably crime reconstructions and witness confrontations. According to the applicant and the information contained in the judgment of
9 March 1998
10. On 26 June 1998, at J.W.'s request and with the approval of the Youth Welfare Office (Jugendwohlfahrtsträger) attached to the Linz–Land District Administrative Authority (Bezirkshauptmannschaft), the Linz-Land District Court withdrew the applicant's visiting rights. It noted that, at the first arranged visit on
15 April 2011
53. According to the Government, on 18 October 2010 the military prosecutor in charge of the investigation decided to discontinue the proceedings in respect of the events that had taken place on 24 December 1989 in Brădeşti. On
30 October 1991
9. By a decision of 19 September 1991 the City of Munich, having regard to the applicant’s conviction by the Munich I Regional Court on 14 June 1991, decided to expel the applicant from German territory and prohibited him from ever re-entering Germany. The expulsion was to be enforced on the applicant’s release from p...
the same day
20. On the morning of 11 April 2011 (the day of the vote on the proposals to amend the retirement age of judges), the applicant addressed a letter to the Prime Minister, in which he stressed that the proposal was humiliating and professionally unjustifiable; it infringed the fundamental principles of the independence,...
6 August 2008
54. Abda Sharif held a further meeting with President Aref on 18 August 2008 and presented him with the letter from the British embassy, outlining the United Kingdom’s opposition to the imposition of the death penalty. The letter was signed by the British ambassador, Christopher Prentice, and waived the right to compe...
the period between 6 February 2007 and 16 January 2008
21. On 16 July 2008 the medical board issued their report. The applicant was diagnosed with “a cranial contusion with pyramidal insufficiency on the right side and signs of light motor aphasia”. However, on account of the lack of any medical documents concerning the applicant’s health in
August 2004
139. From the documents submitted it appears that on a number of occasions the applicants complained to various State authorities about their relatives’ abduction and requested assistance in their search. For instance, in
2 June 2002
100. In October 2005 the Government submitted copies of several documents from criminal case file no. 36125, opened in November 2004 by the Shali District Prosecutor's Office. The file was opened on the basis of unspecified documents from the Main Military Prosecutor's Office concerning the disappearance of Said-Magom...
11 May 2000
36. The applicant alleged that despite his request, he had not had access to the case file until 10 June 2000. In the meantime, he commissioned an expert report by the court’s permanent specialist on explosives and blasts, M.A.L. In her report of
15 August 2002
39. On 4 April 2003 the first applicant requested an update on progress in the investigation in case no. 61116 from the district prosecutor’s office. In reply, he was informed on 11 April 2003 that the investigation instituted on
21 April 1995
10. Upon the applicant’s further appeal, the Administrative Court of Appeal (kammarrätten) in Gothenburg held an oral hearing at the location of the applicant’s property on 29 March 1995. By a judgment of
four months’
25. On the same date, the Šibenik Municipal Court held a hearing at which the applicant did not appear and to which his defence counsel had not been summoned. The cardiologist, A.S., again did not attend the hearing, nor did he excuse his absence. The hearing was held in the presence of the Deputy State Attorney and t...
23 December 1990
119. In the proceedings concerning citizenship, on 18 November 2005 the Ministry gave the applicant two months to complete her application. Among other things, she had to prove that she had been actually resident in Slovenia since
4 November 2000
15. During their interrogation on 4 November 2000 both applicants denied involvement in any crime. Although their lawyers obtained permission from V. Maiduc, the deputy Commissioner of the Chişinău police inspectorate, to meet their clients as of
October 1996 – October 1999
6. On 12 February 1999 the Yenakiyeve Court (Єнакіївський міський суд) ordered the mine “Poltavska” to pay the applicant a lump sum of 10,922.79 hryvnyas (UAH)[1]. On 22 March 1999 the Donetsk Regional Court (the “Regional Court”; Донецький обласний суд) amended this judgment, having additionally awarded the applicant...
from 22 April 1992
43. By an order dated 12 February 1995, the Supreme Court referred the following question to the ECJ and adjourned the proceedings before it: “Is Article 8 of [Regulation (EEC) no. 990/93] to be construed as applying to an aircraft which is owned by an undertaking the majority or controlling interest in which is held ...
a few days later
8. In late July 2004 (the exact date is unknown) a TV set, an iron and a radio were stolen from the household of Ms G., an acquaintance of Ms T. Ms G. was away on a trip at the time and discovered the theft upon her return home
30 May 1997
16. On 30 May 1997 the Regional Court dismissed the applicant’s request for legal aid, finding that the applicant had sufficient means to afford assistance by a lawyer. On 12 June 1997 the Regional Court dismissed the applicant’s request for legal aid in order to appeal against the decision of
26 June 2004
16. In June 2004 the Prosecutor General, Mr I.O., was appointed as Minister of the Interior. Allegedly, the newly appointed Minister removed the first applicant from the Kaladze case and ousted him from office in a degrading manner on
between 4 and 7 February 2003
17. The final hearing was scheduled for 7 February 2003. According to the applicant (who was pregnant at the time), she sought an adjournment on the grounds of ill health. The District Court held the final hearing in the applicant’s and her representative’s absence and dismissed the applicant’s claims. The relevant ex...
twelve-month
31. By a decision of the AFLD Board of 28 March 2013 the applicant was again designated for inclusion in the “testing pool”. The decision contained the following reasoning: “She maintains ... that, since the entry into force of the Order of 14 April 2010, inclusion in the testing pool is possible only for a non-renewa...
December 2006
18. On 24 February 2007 the applicant was transferred to colony no. 5. He was immediately examined by an infectious diseases specialist who, having recorded the applicant’s weight loss and his suffering from herpes on the chest since
30 November 2001
12. On 27 July 2005 the applicant was convicted and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. The court relied on the statements of various witnesses attesting that the applicant had taken money from them and never returned it, absconding from them. It did not mention anything about the results of the rogatory commission ...
22 July 2003
28. On 23 August 2003 investigator R. issued a decision discontinuing the criminal investigation in terms that were similar to the decision of 3 May 2003. On 12 September 2003 the district prosecutor stated that the requirements made on
18 March 1998
41. On 26 February 1998 the Administrative Court dismissed the applicants’ complaints. The Administrative Court found in particular that the Supreme Board had carried out the calculation of compensation in a detailed and comprehensible manner and confirmed its finding that the said compensation was in accordance with ...
7 June 1999
8. On 22 October 1999, following an objection (протест) by the Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea quashed the judgment of
January 2002 – March 2007
37. Following delivery of the judgment, no inquests were listed from September 2001 to February 2002 pending the amendment of the Coroners (Practice and Procedure) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1963 (“the 1963 Rules”). (d)
2 August 2007
72. On 14 October 2005 the MPA referred a complaint to the IPCC about the MPS’s handling of public statements following the shooting of Mr de Menezes. The IPCC carried out a second investigation and the IPCC Stockwell Two Report was published on
19 January 2007
37. On 5 January 2007 the President of the Section decided, in the circumstances, not to indicate to the Government of Norway, under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court, the interim measure requested. The circumstances underlying the application were not of the kind to which, in the Court's practice, Rule 39 was applied. On...
10 March 2006
22. On 13 February 2006 the Government of Bhutan issued a travel document for the applicant which was valid for one month and allowed him to travel from the United Kingdom to Bhutan. The Home Office attempted to remove him on
earlier that day
19. On 28 October 2006 at 10.30 p.m. the applicant was referred to the Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institute for a further medical examination. The doctor who examined him noted, in a preliminary report, that the applicant complained of having been hit on the face and squeezed around the neck
31 May 1996
26. The house in issue was therefore demolished by a construction firm. The applicant had claimed that her appeal against the District Court’s decision of 15 May 1996 prevented the enforcement of the removal judgment. However, this claim was rejected by the Enforcement Office on
three months
30. In a judgment of 21 June 2002 the Prague High Court (Vrchní soud) dismissed the applicant credit union’s first request for judicial review as being unsubstantiated, finding that the applicant credit union had been placed in receivership in accordance with the national legislation then in force and that the OSCU ha...
29 October 1997
13. The trial finally began on 13 October 1997 – five years, three months and seventeen days after the Indictment Division’s decision of 26 June 1992 and more than seven years after the complaint had been lodged and the proceedings instituted. Hearings were held on 13, 14, 15, 21 and
12 October 2004
22. Later the same day K., too, wrote “a statement of surrender to the police” in respect of the robbery and murder of Mr and Ms S., in which he confirmed to the same investigator the account of the events given in the applicant’s related confession (see paragraph 20 above). K. submitted that on
28 July 2008
120. The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture has found that isolation for twenty-two to twenty-four hours per day may amount to ill-treatment and, in certain instances, torture (Interim Report of
three more months
19. From 13 June until 3 November[1] 2010 the applicant underwent anti‑TB treatment at the hospital in prison no. 61. After undergoing a medical examination upon his arrival he was diagnosed with focal tuberculosis of the upper part of the left lung (category 5.1), “with equivocal activity” (із сумнівною активністю), ...
23 December 1990
77. Section 1 of the amended Legal Status Act applied to aliens who had been citizens of other former SFRY republics on 25 June 1991, had been registered as having their permanent residence in Slovenia on
7 October 1996
40. On 3 August 2001 a letter from the gendarmerie headquarters in Ankara was sent to the Ministry of Interior Affaires. The letter was a reply to an inquiry made by the Ministry of Foreign Affaires following the communication of the applicant's case by the Court to the respondent Government. It was stated in the lett...
30 June 2000
95. On 30 March 2004 more publications, from which, the applicant alleged, he had obtained information for Alternative Futures, were presented to the jury. The defence asked to examine the expert report of
5 April 2011
10. Their claim was allowed on 21 June 2002. That judgment was quashed by the Zagreb County Court on 25 April 2005. The first-instance court again allowed the claim on 17 September 2010. However, on
13 July 1994
9. On an unspecified date the court ordered an expert valuation of the land. In a report submitted on 17 September 2001 the expert concluded that the occupied land covered a surface area of 124.87 square metres and confirmed that it could be classified as building land. He further concluded that the market value of th...
15 May 2002
14. On 13 February 2002 the Court of Appeal prolonged the applicant's detention until 15 May 2002. The court noted that the applicant had been detained on remand for a long time. However, it considered that the particular circumstances of the case justified keeping him in custody until
8 April 2005
12. The first page of the article also contained extensive quotes from articles previously published in February, April and May 2005 in the same newspaper, in particular one dated 28 April 2005 which discussed assets allegedly belonging to I. and his relatives. That article contained quotes from a letter of the chairm...
31 June 2001
24. During the investigation the authorities identified two military servicemen who had taken part in the apprehension of the applicant’s relatives. They were T. and M., both from Yekaterinburg and on mission in Chechnya. Those two servicemen were called for questioning to the Grozny Prosecutor’s Office on
3 April 1998
30. On 29 December 1997 the applicant requested the written grounds for the decision. They were sent to him on 5 February 1998. On 18 February 1998 he appealed against the decision. On 25 February 1998 he was summoned to pay a court fee. On
5 February 2013
21. On 29 January 2013 the applicant filed yet another application requesting that the amount of deposit be reduced. He noted that he had been in detention for another five months since the decree granting him bail, and yet he was still not in a position to benefit from such bail - to which he was entitled by law - si...
11 November 1992
165. As the station commander in Arıcak, the witness had certain judicial obligations. He prepared the incident report and the incident map relating to the clash, which were sent to the public prosecutor. The witness explained the contradictions between the incident report of
the previous years
14. The ÖSYM, in its reply of 12 August 1997, informed the applicant that he had obtained one of the highest results among the students who had sat the second examination, but that his exam results had been annulled on the advice of an academic council, consisting of three professors, which had found that, given his p...
3 July 1998
28. By letter of 12 October 1998, the Deputy President of the Supreme Court requested the Ternopil Town Court to send the case file to the Supreme Court for supervisory review. By the same letter, he informed the Ternopil Town Court and Mr M. that the execution of the judgment of
25 January 2014
67. The court ordered forensic examinations in respect of allegations of ill-treatment by a number of the accused, including E.I. and M.A. (see paragraphs 30, 33 and 35 above). According to the forensic reports issued on
the same day
34. On 9 April 2004 the head of the Leninsky district department of the interior in Grozny was ordered to identify persons travelling in the bus before the explosion and those who were concerned by the crime in question. On
19 and 20 September 1995
62. It found that the three suspects had on a number of occasions made genuine and consistent confessions in the presence of their lawyers and that G.C. had written one of his confessions himself. D.C.’s confession of
8 August 2010
13. On 9 August 2010 a forensic medical certificate was issued by the Arad County Forensic Service at the request of the applicant. According to the certificate, the applicant had a sutured cut on the lower lip and bruising on the upper lip, bruising on the left side of the chest, two excoriations on the left side of ...
3 April 2006
76. On 16 January 2006 the applicant lodged a claim with the District Court seeking to establish the paternity of Magomed Edilov in respect of her daughter, born on 13 June 2002. The claim was granted and on