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38. On 27 January 2011, following an appeal by the second applicant, the Paris Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of 9 February 2010 giving the following reasons: “... While the principle of the inalienability of civil status precludes the law from recognising a change wilfully sought by an individual, it does not im...
6 March 2003
37. On 11 February 2005 the Chernoyarskiy District Court again dismissed the applicant's complaint about the decision of 15 December 2003. The relevant part of the decision reads as follows: “Having examined the arguments of the defence, as stated in their complaint, having heard the submissions of the Chernoyarskiy D...
7 June 1999
89. An investigation was to be opened into the applicant's claims pursuant to the law concerning the prosecution of civil servants and a report was to be submitted as soon as possible. (b) Letters dated
31 August 2003
10. On the same date the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court of Yerevan granted the investigator’s application to have the applicant placed in pre-trial detention for a period of two months. The applicant alleged that during the hearing his lawyer had requested the court not to impose detention as a preventive meas...
19 June 2006
69. In a letter of 16 June 2007 the deputy prosecutor of the Urus‑Martanovskiy District replied to a request for information about the investigation from the first applicant, saying that on 15 June 2006 the investigation in case no. 25350 had been resumed and that on
less than one year old
22. On 26 May 2004 the District Court again quashed the decisions of the Municipal Court and remitted the case for a retrial. In its reasoning it held that the civil parties needed to be heard again, that the actual moment of conception of the first applicant needed to be determined precisely in order to find out whet...
8 February 2001
9. The appeal lodged by the applicant against the Ödemiş Court's decision of 23 June 2000 was rejected by the Court of Cassation on 8 December 2000. A request made by the first applicant for a rectification of that decision was rejected on
the same day
14. On 13 March 1997 around 10 a.m. the applicant, on being asked by a policeman to give evidence about his employees in connection with the proceedings against his son, stated again that he did not wish to do so and that none of his employees was currently working on the business premises. On
1 December 2009
29. Following the conclusion of the taxation proceedings, the Outer House heard the parties on several occasions between 9 January 2009 and 22 October 2009 to determine future procedure and finally listed an eight‑day hearing of legal issues to commence on
19 May 1999
21. After having discussed the matter with the Federal Ministry in April and May 1999, the applicant, on 12 May 1999 limited his request for authorisation of “Ukrain” to one particular type of cancer. In a meeting with an official of the Ministry on
28 July 1990
9. On 8 December 1989 the applicant was convicted of the murder of his second wife, committed in a cruel manner, the case having been qualified as a “dangerous recidivism” within the meaning of Article 116 § 11 of the Penal Code. The applicant was sentenced to the death penalty. By judgment of
4 August 2004
12. The investigator found a handgun on the ground under the bonnet of the parked car. The safety lever was lifted and there was one bullet in the barrel and two in the magazine. The investigator found and retrieved one spent cartridge case, on the other side of the street, two to three metres from the parked car wher...
20 April 1998
16. On an unspecified date in 2008 the applicant lodged an action against the State Committee on the Affairs of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, the Ministry of Finance and other authorities asking for compensation for non-enforcement of the judgment of
29 December 1977
13. On 17 December 1977 the plaintiff bank addressed a letter to the Bank of Cyprus Ltd in Nicosia, together with two bills of exchange, one for 465,915.82 US dollars (USD) and the other for USD 300,000, with instructions that they be presented to the applicant for acceptance and payment. The applicant filed a civil a...
3 February 1998
46. The medical experts submitted their reports on 20 May and 10 July 2006. The expert in gastroenterology stated that it was possible, albeit rare, for a nasal polypectomy to cause meningitis. He further considered that the applicant’s husband had received appropriate treatment but that his discharge on
29 June 1998
33. The Kyiv City Court also ordered the forfeiture of the applicant's bail, a sum of UAH 500,000[3]. In particular, it held: “... when questioned as an accused Mr O.I. Bogomolov explained that he had changed his witness statement after his conversation with Mr V.G. Koval, who had recommended that, if he did not wish ...
3 July 2004
18. Parallel to the criminal proceedings pending before the Samsun Assize Court, the General Security Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior initiated disciplinary proceedings against the applicant in relation to the incidents of
14 October 2008
31. According to the applicant, he finished examining the case file on 10 October 2008. Two weeks later the remaining defendants completed their examination of the file. The Government, relying on the Supreme Court decision of
approximately three years
20. In a decision of 7 March 2002, the text of which was deposited with the registry on 6 May 2002, the Court of Appeal found that the length of the proceedings had been excessive for the following reasons: “... The first-instance proceedings ended after
mid-July 1997
26. The applicant agreed that he was a client of the car repair shop and knew its managers. He also confirmed that he had bought several cars from them. However, in his words, those cars were sold to him and were not given as a bribe, as the prosecution suggested. He indicated that in
15 July 2003
104. On 15 August 2003 the President of the Urus-Martan Town Court informed the President of the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic that the investigation in criminal case no. 24048 had been resumed as of
29 July 2006
28. On 30 July 2006 a hearing took place at the Tbilisi City Court. The applicants objected that owing to the initiation of the administrative proceedings they could not avail themselves of the opportunity to challenge the prosecutorial ruling of
ten months’
22. On 27 March 2003 the Bursa Assize Court acquitted ten of the officers, finding that none of the complainants, except for the applicant, had been ill-treated and that those ten officers had not been involved in the applicant’s ill-treatment in police custody. The court found the other three officers, who had been i...
at least one year
28. The High Court also referred to the fact that a psychologist at an outpatient clinic, K.G.F., had reported that A was marked by neglect in her early life. The psychologist recommended that A, because of her socio-emotional difficulties, be referred to the Children’s and Young People’s Psychiatric Out-Patient Clini...
19 January 2001
25. On 17 October 2000 the applicant requested the court to deliver a decision promptly, seeing that the proceedings had already taken eighteen years. In support of his request he submitted an expert psychiatric assessment of his state of health. In a note of
5 July 2000
20. On an unspecified date the Deputy President of the Donetsk Regional Court lodged a protest with the Presidium of that court, seeking annulment of the decision of 9 March 2000 as regards the pecuniary award. On
November 2005
73. On 10 April 2009 a panel of psychiatrists and psychologists examined the applicant and issued an expert opinion. They found that the applicant continued to suffer from nervous tics. Given that such tics could have had both organic and neurological causes, it was impossible to establish a causal link between the ev...
16 December 2004
46. At the Court’s request, the Government submitted extracts from the prison medical record of the second applicant between 26 November 2004 and 5 March 2005 and typed copies of his hospitalisation record of
13 March 2002
28. The Diyarbakır Assize Court acquitted the applicant of (i) all the charges against him brought under the public prosecutor’s indictment of 29 February 1996 (see paragraph 10 above), (ii) the charge of involvement in the killing of one of the three persons noted in the indictment of
14 February 2006
14. On an unspecified date following the applicant’s arrest, the Kazakhstan Prosecutor General’s Office informed the Zyuzinskiy Inter‑District Prosecutor’s Office (“the district prosecutor’s office”) by fax of their intention to request the applicant’s extradition and asked that office to ensure that the applicant rem...
8 July 2008
38. On 30 April 2008 the applicant challenged the verdict by a complaint, which he considered to be a cassation appeal, while the Court of Appeal regarded it as an ordinary appeal. As the applicant insisted that it was a cassation appeal to be considered by the Supreme Court, on
10 December 2002
13. On 22 November 2002 the applicant contacted the Ministry of Justice with a view to securing an out-of-court settlement and the payment of MKD 310,000 (equivalent to EUR 5,060) in respect of non-pecuniary damage for what he claimed had been the unlawful deprivation of his liberty. By letter of
the next two days
61. Further to these reports the Government submitted that the applicant had refused to be examined by the prison doctor or to give a statement about the incident. The Head of Security Division heard the two guards involved in the incident separately. In
22 December 2010
24. On 14 June 2011 the Constitutional Court declared the complaint inadmissible. It recapitulated the course of those proceedings and observed that – since the applicants’ request contained no new relevant information in relation to their previous request – the courts were prevented by law from examining it. The peri...
11 February 2004
10. By judgment of 27 November 2003 the District Court confirmed that the judgment of 22 October 2001, as upheld by the appeal decision of 6 February 2002, had not been enforced in view of the lack of the debtor’s funds, but dismissed the applicant’s claim for increase in payments as unfounded. That judgment was uphel...
14 February
9. In the resumed proceedings, the District Court held a hearing and appointed two valuation experts on 4 September 1995. Further hearings took place on 3 June 1996, 10 June 1997, 1 September 1998, 25 January 1999,
3 June 2003
15. The judgment stated that the District Court had proceeded with the case until 12 March 1998 and that subsequently the District Court judge had waited for developments in proceedings file no. 4 C 204/96. As from
3 March 2000
62. On 21 April 2000 the Military Prosecutor of the Northern Caucasus Military Circuit replied to Memorial and stated that a military prosecutor had conducted a verification of its submissions and on
20 March 2013
51. In the civil case against the second of the alleged abusers (P.O.) the courts found for the applicant. On 17 July 2012 the Warsaw-Mokotów District Court held the P.O. had infringed the personal rights of the applicant (his dignity, health and personal inviolability) and awarded him 2,500 PLN in compensation (EUR 6...
the period between 28 February and 12 March 2012
28. The Government submitted that the Kumkapı Foreigners’ Removal Centre, where the applicant had been held, had a capacity of 300 persons and that a total of between 100 and 140 persons had been held during
15 October 2008
20. On 30 April 2009 the Constitutional Court, sitting in a plenary formation of ten judges (including judges M.J. and D.Š.), held a session to which the applicant was not invited, and adopted a decision whereby it quashed the Administrative Court’s judgment of
26 August 2009
28. On 11 August 2009 the Oktyabrskiy District Court again extended the applicant’s detention for an additional two months, finding that the gravity of the charges against him, information about his personal history and his liability to abscond warranted the extension. Having heard a prison doctor and studied medical ...
1 June 1999
16. On 1 June 1999 the Board of the City of Warsaw refused the application. Subsequently, S.P. lodged an appeal against this decision. On 1 June 2000 the Warsaw Self Government Board of Appeal upheld the Board’s decision of
15 April 1998
34. On 22 April 1997 the prison doctors diagnosed the applicant with pulmonary tuberculosis. On 23 April 1997 he underwent an X-ray examination which confirmed the diagnosis of “focal tuberculosis of the left lungs”. He was prescribed various medicines, including streptomycin, rifampicin, haemodez, multivitamins and v...
three months
15. On 4 July 2013 the Asylum Affairs Division (Patvēruma lietu nodaļa) of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs informed the applicant that they had received his application for asylum and would examine it within
the same day
72. On 15 January 2013 the Armenian President, Mr Serzh Sargsyan held a meeting with the leaders of the legislative, executive and judiciary branches of the Armenian Ministry of Defence. The speech he gave at the meeting was published
18 February 2009
5. In 1977 a number of flats in a residential building located at 15-3 Ulitsa Tsyurupy, Moscow, were assigned by the City of Moscow to the Ministry of Communications. The flats were used as temporary housing for foreign specialists seconded to the Ministry. In 1991 the flats were transferred to the Rostelekom Open Joi...
19 May 2000
9. While the proceedings were pending before the Regional Court, the applicant requested that property of the defendant company be attached as a security of her claim. On 18 January 2000 the Regional Court imposed an injunction forbidding the defendant company to perform transactions with two of its real estates and o...
21 October 2004
16. A hearing scheduled for 18 October 2004 was adjourned until 19 October owing to the illness of one of the defendants. The hearing set down for 20 October 2004 had to be adjourned owing to the absence of a witness. It was held on
30 September 2005
17. In support of her submission, the applicant furnished the Court with the following witness accounts: two statements by the applicant dated 1 October 2005 and 20 October 2008; an account by Mrs A. A. dated
November 1998
51. In September 1995, a trial was initiated at Heathrow Airport of modified procedures for early morning landings (those between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m.). The aim of the trial, which was conducted by National Air Traffic Services Limited on behalf of the DETR, was to help alleviate noise over parts of central London in the...
1 January 2004
20. The Government submitted that following the revocation of the EWK pension the applicant had been employed between 1 January and 15 June 2003, and subsequently between 19 and 30 April 2004. As of
8 April 1993
19. On 3 May 1993 a social welfare official decided on behalf of the Social Welfare Board (perusturvalautakunta, grundtrygghetsnämnden) of S. to place M. in a children’s home for a period of three months. This was to be regarded as a short-term support measure pursuant to the 1983 Act. The applicants had been consulte...
17 December 2009
6. The applicant requested his supervisor’s authorisation to marry M.S., a friend whom he had known since 1996 and who had become his partner in 2008. The supervisor interviewed M.S. and the applicant, at first separately and then together. They informed her of the importance which they attached to the religious dimen...
15 July 2005
16. On an unspecified date the State expert refused to issue an opinion, noting that the shop at 32 Attarlar Street no longer existed and that therefore it was technically impossible to examine it and assess its market value. Accordingly, the interim decision of
five years and eight months'
13. On 30 March 2001 the Court of Appeal convicted the applicant of six counts of dishonesty as a debtor, four counts of aggravated tax fraud and five counts of aiding and abetting accounting offences. It sentenced him to
21 April 2008
43. By a letter of the same day the Bochum Chief Public Prosecutor, in reply to the CPS’s information request of 23 March 2009, explained that he had been obliged by operation of domestic law to instigate criminal investigations against U. after having learned of the circumstances of Mr Gray’s death through the CPS’s ...
6 August 2000
78. In undated letters the investigating authorities informed the applicants, Ilyas Akiyev, Baymurza Aldiyev, Aslambek Imagamayev and Aslambek Dishniyev that the criminal proceedings instituted in connection with the attack of
23 October 2002
29. On 14 May 2003 the Chechnya prosecutor’s office quashed the decision to suspend the investigation and reopened the proceedings, noting inter alia, that the investigation had established the following: “...Between 9.30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on
approximately one day old
10. Having examined the applicant, the forensic medical expert found numerous injuries on his body (forensic expert report no. 5663): bruises on the superior and inferior eyelids of both eyes measuring 7 by 6 cm and 6 by 5 cm respectively, on the right cheekbone measuring 6 by 4 cm; on the forehead measuring 4 by 3 cm...
20 February 1912
16. On 20 April 1991 the applicant association organised a commemoration meeting at the Rozhen Monastery. The participants adopted a declaration addressed to the President and Parliament, which stated, inter alia: “1. Our rights as a minority, of which we have been deprived, should be guaranteed to us in accordance w...
10 July 2001
20. On 25 October 2002 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision of 10 July 2001, noting that the Regional Court had acted within its competence. The Supreme Court further held as follows: “By virtue of Article 96 § 1 of the RSFSR Code of Criminal Procedure... in force at the time the Regional Co...
12 to 22 December 2008
8. Extract no. 46707 of the applicant’s medical record drawn up on 22 December 2008 by a medical commission in Krasnodar Regional Clinical Hospital no. 1 reads as follows: “[The applicant]... is a disabled person [officially recognised as having a] 1st degree disability; [he] underwent inpatient treatment from
6 September 2011
67. The additional checks revealed that O.H. had not been receiving her correspondence. They also established that the second applicant had not been attending kindergarten since 6 June 2011, and that the last appointments she had attended at the health care facility had been on 22 June and
5 June 1993
52. Following the dummy test, three medical experts were appointed to re‑examine the conclusions about the circumstances in which Mr Stefanov’s injuries had been sustained. More specifically, they were requested to establish what was the cause of Mr Stefanov’s death and whether some of the injuries found on his body c...
the period from five to nine years
17. On 16 January 2008 the District Court again remanded the applicant in pre-trial detention at the prosecutor’s request. The relevant decision reads as follows: “On 16 January 2008 the Komsomolskiy District Court of Kerson ... established: The criminal case concerning the accusation of [the applicant] under Article ...
1 October 2010
37. On 15 October 2010 the Russian GPO informed K. that on 9 September 2010 it had decided to extradite the applicant to Uzbekistan and that since the latter had not made use of his right to challenge it in the courts, the order had become final. However, his extradition had been stayed owing to his application for as...
16 September 2009
56. At the hearing held on 24 June 2009 the court noted that the report had been signed by one of the experts only and had not been submitted sufficiently in advance of the hearing. It adjourned the examination of the case and scheduled the next hearing for
9 March 2001
38. As regards the third applicant, R.Py. stated during the pre-trial investigation that the UNA leader A.Sh. and the third applicant had directed the UNA and UNSO column to try to break through the police cordon near the Shevchenko monument and on Bankova Street. He had also seen people from the crowd kick a police o...
three years
31. The applicant’s criminal trial began in January 2015. On 16 April 2015 the Baku Court of Serious Crimes convicted him of all charges and sentenced him to six and a half years’ imprisonment and deprivation of the right to hold official positions in State and local authorities and the right to engage in entrepreneur...
20 April 2005
23. On 11 April 2005 the applicants filed an application by summons with the Supreme Court for stay of execution of the judgment of the District Court of Nicosia pending the determination of their appeal. On
13 August 2009
71. On 20 May 2010 the Prosecutor rejected the applicant’s criminal complaints concerning the criminal offences of extortion, endangering the security of a person, murder, abuse of office, violation of human dignity by abuse of power, and theft allegedly committed against the applicant’s son by fellow inmates or priso...
7 January 2008
30. On 7 May 2008 a prosecutor at the Garadagh District Prosecutor’s Office again refused to institute criminal proceedings, using wording that was almost identical to the decisions of 26 April 2007 and
another four days
19. Between 16 April and 27 May 2011 police officers visited the applicants’ home to check on the first applicant on twenty-nine occasions, once a day and almost every day. On eight days there were no checks at all, and on
17 November 1997
8. On 10 October 1997 the Gorodnya Prosecutors’ Office rejected Mr O.K.’s request for criminal proceedings to be initiated against the officers S.V. and V.V., having found no appearance of criminal conduct on their part. On
the end of 2009
35. Lastly, the Government stated that the sanitary conditions in the facility had complied with the existing legal requirements. The applicant had received an adequate quantity of food of proper quality. Medical assistance had been provided to him whenever necessary and free of charge. The Government also submitted b...
21 April 2004
24. On 21 December 2004 the Supreme Court, considering V.'s cassation appeal on the merits, found that the applicant company's complaint referred to the allegedly improper enforcement of the notary's writ of execution, while the commercial courts could deal with complaints concerning the enforcement of judgments, ruli...
8 February 2011
38. In the meantime, the applicant had challenged the decision to refuse his asylum claim and sought to appeal to the Court of Appeal. On 28 April 2012 the Secretary of State agreed that the decision of
24 March 1993
9. On 1 October 1992 S.P., one of the heirs of the applicant’s family and acting on their behalf, filed with the Minister of Planning and Construction (Minister Gospodarki Przestrzennej i Budownictwa) an application for annulment of the administrative decisions refusing to grant temporary ownership. On
10 May 1990
29. On 30 July 2009 the Szczecin District Court dismissed the claim against the State Treasury – the Mayor of Szczecin (pko Skarbowi Państwa – Prezydentowi Miasta Szczecina) and against the municipality of Szczecin (pko Gminie Miasto Szczecin). It noted that the relevant land register listed the State Treasury as the ...
27 December 2007
14. Subsequently the first-instance court granted the prosecutor’s requests to extend the applicant’s suspension from her post by further periods of one to three months on essentially the same grounds. The applicant appealed against all the decisions, raising the same arguments as before, but her appeals were dismisse...
every two months
41. On the following day, the Minister of Justice at that time decided to suspend the expulsion of the applicant until further notice. He also decided to keep the applicant in detention since there was reason to believe that he would otherwise try to abscond. The detention decision was reconsidered
his 45 years
15. By its judgment (no. 1196) of 7 June 2001 the Supreme Court, without holding a hearing, rejected the appeal. Although the Supreme Court found that there was a causal link between smoking and the damage alleged, it did not find a causal link between the damage and the tobacco companies’ marketing activity. It consi...
September 2002
70. In August 2002 the investigation again requested the chief of staff of the Northern Caucasus military circuit to submit details about the deployment and positioning on 20-22 January 2000 in the Staropromyslovskiy district of 30 military units, the numbers of which had been previously communicated to the investigat...
5 September 2008
19. On 19 May 2008 the Court of Cassation decided to leave the applicant’s first appeal unexamined on the ground that it had been lodged outside the prescribed one-month time-limit. On 2 July, 4 August and
20 November 2001
7. On 13 June 2000 the Skopje Court of First Instance (“the Trial Court”) convicted Mr I.A. of smuggling nearly 9 tonnes of sugar, which he had transported in the lorry in November 1997. According to the Government, the court dismissed the prosecutor’s application to have the lorry confiscated, given that Mr I.A. had ...
23 February 2009
13. On 4 December 2008 the Ninth Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation upheld the judgment of the first-instance court. This decision was deposited with the registry of the first-instance court on
28 June 1994
7. On 30 December 1992 the applicant instituted civil proceedings against ZT in the Celje Baisc Court (Temeljno sodišče v Celju) seeking damages in the amount of 6,700,000 tolars (approximately 28,000 euros) for the injuries sustained. Before
five years'
24. In its judgment of 1 March 2001 the Mykolaiv Regional Court found that the prosecution's charge of murder was based on assumptions and, accordingly, could not sustain a finding of guilt. Based on the applicant's statements and the evidence before it the court found that the applicant was guilty of unintentional ho...
6 April 2000
10. The next hearing listed for 22 July 1999 was adjourned upon the applicant’s request because she had to leave Belogorsk. She asked to schedule the hearing for 3 August 1999. The Town Court listed the hearing for
1 January 2004
10. On 1 April 2004, 20 July 2005, 3 June 2005 and 24 November 2005 the Pension Fund suspended (obustavlja) payment of the applicants’ pensions respectively, until such time as they ceased professional activity. These decisions were all “deemed to be applicable as of
17 March 2008
14. According to a forensic medical report issued in June 2008, Marius-Romeo Chinez had an excoriation of 3 x 2 cm on the right of the forehead, a 1.5 x 1 cm ecchymosis outside the right eye, several ecchymoses and haematomas on the head, a 1 cm wound on the upper lip which had been sutured, several ecchymoses of 7 x ...
4 March 2008
14. On 2 July 2008 the police informed the State Attorney’s Office of the results of their preliminary investigation. The relevant part of the police report reads: “... a group of boys from Mokošica, headed by P.H., in which G.V. and M.P. and several other unidentified individuals were involved, went to the front of t...
February 2004
9. The applicant appealed against the decision to deport him and his appeal was dismissed by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal on 13 March 2008. The Tribunal noted the applicant’s previous criminal record: he had been convicted of possession of Class A and Class B drugs in
11 June 2003
11. On 23 May 2003 the Ljubljana Labour and Social Court requested the applicant to pay court fees. Subsequently, the applicant paid only part of the fees. As regards the remaining part, he lodged an objection stating that the request was time barred. On
December 1992
6. On 3 December 1992 a bank, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, and two other investors granted the company loans to construct a plant for the production of wood-powder fuel. The bank's loan, amounting to 5.8 million Swedish kronor (SEK), was to be paid in instalments. In
24 January 1970
17. In his recapitulatory pleading of 20 February 2003, the applicant relied on the provisions of the Law of 3 December 2001. In his submission, that Law repealed the provisions of the Law of 3 January 1972 stipulating that the rights of heirs entitled as a result of that Law to a reserved portion of the estate could ...
24 August 2005
12. On 16 February 2004 the Town Court awarded the applicant RUB 23,131.68 in arrears relating to a disability allowance. On 22 April 2004 the Regional Court upheld the judgment. It was enforced in full on
13 January 2004
13. In February 2004 unidentified officers from the Vedeno ROVD who were working there on mission from the Perm Region in Russia provided the applicant with information about her son’s abduction. According to the officers, on
31 January 1996
36. Following an intervention by the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s Office the Social Welfare Board, on 12 January 1996, began preparing a formal access restriction and heard the applicant to this end. On