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8 June 1999
13. The applicants appealed on points of law. They submitted that the Court of Appeal had failed to apply the principle whereby the criminal law must be strictly interpreted, in that it had extended the scope of the presumption raised by section 93-3 of the 1982 Act (whereby the publishing director is liable as princi...
11 July 2005
8. On 21 February 2005 the applicant requested that the supervising Youth Office, which had refused to continue to be involved due to the parties’ behaviour, be replaced by another child protection association. On
4 April 2005
22. On 11 August 2004 the Court of Appeal ordered the commissioning of an expert report. Following a court inquiry, the expert informed it on 23 November 2004 that he was still waiting for important technical information from the American armed forces. On
10 May 1990
22. The applicant appealed to the Court of Appeal, requesting an immediate stay of the demolition order. She submitted that enforcement of the removal judgment should be stayed until the division proceedings or, in the alternative, until the ownership proceedings had been concluded. She also claimed that she had not b...
2 June 2003
7. On 14 May 2003, following W’s death, a social worker from the Maribor Welfare Authority (hereinafter referred to as “the Maribor Authority”) called the applicants and asked them to bring X and Y, who both lived with the applicants, to the paediatric hospital for examination. The children stayed in the hospital unti...
before 31 December 1994
22. On 2 July 2002 the Supreme Administrative Court dismissed his appeal against the decision of 19 December 2000. The court observed that its jurisdiction was limited to the examination of the lawfulness of the impugned decision. It found that the decision was lawful as it was common ground between the parties that t...
15 July 2009 to 16 July 2009
7. From 24 November 2008 to 22 January 2009 and from 15 July 2009 to 10 August 2009 he was held in the closed section. From 24 November 2008 to 22 January 2009 he was held in cell 3 (third floor) measuring 18 square metres (including a separate 1.72 square metre sanitary facility). From
20 April 2016
126. Before the repeat examination of the case by the Sheki Court of Appeal, the applicant, who at that time was serving his sentence in Penal Facility No. 2 in Baku, wrote to the appellate court several times waiving his right to be personally present at the appeal hearings to be held in Sheki, expressing confidence ...
ninety-nine years
10. Since the early 1970s a household-refuse tip had been in operation in Hekimbaşı, a slum area adjoining Kazım Karabekir. On 22 January 1960 Istanbul City Council (“the city council”) had been granted use of the land, which belonged to the Forestry Commission (and therefore to the Treasury), for a term of
February 2000
18. At the relevant time other public figures also voiced the opinion that the Chief Public Prosecutor was suffering from a mental disorder and had committed numerous serious criminal acts. In 2002 Mr E.S., a former member of Parliament known for his publications about alleged crimes committed by high-ranking official...
20 March 2001
69. In a letter of 16 April 2003 submitted to the Court in support of the applicant’s case Ms. K.K. stated that she had formed part of the DSP as first sergeant-major based at Camp Tshatshi in Kinshasa. She had been working in the reconnaissance unit of the Camp Commander (au service des renseignements pour la sécurit...
1 February 2008
33. On 15 January 2008 the district council, acting on behalf of the town council, offered the applicant a four‑room flat at 9, 13 Tsiolkovskogo Street (hereinafter “Flat 2”) measuring 75.8 square metres with 55 square metres of living space, for a family of five (the applicant, her husband, her son and her two grands...
11 July 2000
28. On 27 June 2000 the applicant’s detention on remand was extended until 31 September 2000, with an almost identical motivation as before; however, the Latgale District Court added that the applicant had no registered domicile in Latvia. On
27 November 2003
31. The applicant appealed to the Supreme Court. In his appeal, among other things, the applicant challenged the bench that had delivered the judgment of 6 April 2004, alleging that, whereas section 65 of the Judiciary Act provided that lay judges were to be appointed from lists approved by the municipal authorities, ...
20 February 2001
41. At different stages of the proceedings several orders were issued by the supervising prosecutors enumerating the steps to be taken by the investigators. On 23 October 2000 a prosecutor from the Chechnya Prosecutor's Office noted that “the investigation was unsatisfactory... In fact, the investigator did not carry ...
7 June 2003
59. Meanwhile, on 22 June 2009 the investigator questioned witness S. M., chief detective of the criminal investigation department of the Vedenskiy District Department of the Interior (“OVD”), who stated as follows: “We [undertook steps] to identify those involved in the blowing up of the [UAZ vehicle] and the mortar ...
From 11 to 12 October 2005
22. The Government’s submissions as regards the conditions of the applicant’s detention in the temporary detention centre can be summarised as follows: Period of detention Cell no. Surface area (in square metres) Number of inmates Number of sleeping places
at least one year
44. This Regulation entered into force on 1 March 2005 (with the exception of Denmark) and has direct effect in the Member States of the European Union, including Hungary. Article 1 - Scope “1. This Regulation shall apply, whatever the nature of the court or tribunal, in civil matters relating to: ... (b) the attribut...
eight years
19. On 3 December 2003 the Lublin Court of Appeal prolonged the applicant's detention until 11 May 2004. It observed that the fact that the trial had not been terminated could not be attributed to the authorities, given the volume of evidence and the fact that some hearings had had to be cancelled as the defendants' c...
16 November 2000
22. From that date onwards, the prosecutor allegedly began actively to impede the investigation. On 15 November 2000 the body was removed from the morgue in Tarashcha. Three days later the Kyiv regional prosecutor's office admitted that the body had been transferred to Kyiv. All documents relating to the first forensi...
19 August 2009
19. On 16 July 2009 the Special Court dismissed another application by the applicant for release. It held that several witnesses were afraid to testify against him in his presence and had thus been heard in his absence. In particular, one witness had been contacted and threatened by unknown persons in an attempt to ge...
5 February 2013
20. On 22 May 2013 the Federal Administrative Court delivered an interim decision in which it declined the applicant’s request for legal aid, reasoning that his application lacked any prospects of success. In its preliminary assessment of the case, the Federal Administrative Court found that the applicant had not conv...
November 2003
34. On 19 May 2004 the Judiciary Qualification Board of Moscow examined the Moscow Judicial Council’s request. The applicant was absent from the proceedings, apparently without any valid excuse. The Judiciary Qualification Board of Moscow decided that the applicant had committed a disciplinary offence and that her off...
January 1991
23. According to the respondent Government, it was absolutely clear that the attempted coup in Latvia was launched by the CPL against the background of the Vilnius events, in the hope that Soviet troops would also invade Riga to support the pro-Soviet coup. The applicant submitted that, at the material time, a series ...
17 May 2000
7. In the letter the applicant complained about the CWS’s actions during her son’s custody proceedings. The applicant disclosed her and her son’s forenames and surname, his date of birth, and her former husband’s full name. She also described the entire chronology of the civil litigation between her and her former hus...
18 November 2000
19. On 19 November 2000 the applicant was subjected to a forensic and physical examination. It was established that he had several bruises which could be the result of the victim's resistance and could have been inflicted in the circumstances described by the victim (paragraph 32, below). It was also established that ...
30 July,10 September
21. The Skopje Court of Appeal, sitting in private, dismissed the appeals, finding that the panel had given sufficient reasons for the applicants’ continued detention. In the decisions (dated 5 May, 8 June, 6 July,
8 November 2001
7. On 5 July 2002 the applicant made three handwritten statements at the police headquarters. He was not assisted by counsel. In the first statement he denied having committed the crimes. In the second and third statements he confessed to having committed three rapes, on
June of the previous year
9. On 6 August 2004 the applicant initiated proceedings under the Media Act (Mediengesetz) against Verlagsgruppe News GmbH, the publisher of Profil, in relation to the article published on 12 July 2004. Relying on sections 6 and 7 of the said Act, he requested compensation for defamation (üble Nachrede) and for the vi...
11 February 1987
35. On 3 May 1994 the Indictment Division dismissed an application by the prosecution for the removal from the case file of the booklet “Civil Servants under the Occupation” (Fonctionnaire sous l'Occupation), which reproduced in extenso the expert historical report set aside by the Court of Cassation on
10 August 2012
173. However, on 8 August 2012 the Minister of Social Relations of the Chelyabinsk Region informed the US applicants that, since the Bilateral Agreement on Adoption had been ratified, with effect from
up to seven years’
12. On 28 May 2012 the police charged the applicant with robbery. On the same day V., an investigator, asked the Kyivskyy District Court of Donetsk to order the applicant’s pre-trial detention. He noted that the applicant was charged with a serious offence punishable by
15 to 27 September 2004
18. On 3 September 2004 the investigator commissioned a forensic examination of the note the applicant had allegedly given to Lig. The applicant was informed of the investigator’s decision on 9 September 2004. The examination took place from
25 April 2005
17. In the context of these investigations, several witness statements were taken. The relevant passages read as follows: The deceased’s relatives: The applicant: “My pregnancy was progressing normally. The doctors preferred a birth by Caesarean section on account of the baby’s position. The birth had initially been s...
4 February 2000
63. On 15 January 2000 officers of the Achkhoy-Martan VOVD carried out a passport check in the town of Achkhoy-Martan. During the check in the house at 32 [rather than 28] Matrosova Street, the applicants' father voluntarily surrendered an FT-26 radio station and accessory equipment, technical documentation in foreign...
over thirty years
9. The applicant was born in 1949 and lives in Surrey. He has suffered from autism since birth. He is unable to speak and his level of understanding is limited. He is frequently agitated and has a history of self-harming behaviour. He lacks the capacity to consent or object to medical treatment. For
several years
64. According to the information provided by the applicant on 30 April 2013, the judgment of 12 March 2009 remained unenforced to that date. The applicant submitted that she had not seen her son for
13 February 2003
18. According to the Government, the applicant’s statement of appeal against the detention order of 24 December 2002 was received by the District Court on 15 January 2003. On 28 January 2003 the applicant was handed a copy of the appeal by the prosecution. The case was received by the Moscow City Court on
13 September 2007
39. Refusals of 17 February 2007 and 25 April 2007, as well as the refusal of 2 December 2008, were reviewed by the domestic courts in accordance with Article 125 of the CCrP. The applicant’s complaints concerning the two 2007 refusals were allowed. In decisions of 6 March and
8 October 1996
25. In two decisions of 22 January 1997, the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) declined to hear constitutional appeals by the applicants against either the civil courts' or the administrative courts' decisions. It referred, inter alia, to its leading judgment of
23 December 2003 until 6 January 2004
20. In his letter of 1 May 2004 the applicant described his conditions of detention in the remand centre since 24 November 2003 as follows. On his arrival the applicant was put in cell no. 19. The cell measured approximately thirty square metres and was designed to accommodate twelve inmates. However, at that time the...
31 May 1998
23. The Regional Organisation challenged the judgment of 13 July 1998 before the Supreme Court of Russia, contending that the Ulyanovsk Regional Court had misinterpreted the meaning of the appeal, which reflected the Tartars’ history and that there had been no incitement to national or religious strife or anything whi...
29 April 1991
9. Both parties appealed against the judgment. On 24 September 1990 the applicant submitted his grounds of appeal and again extended his action. Upon his requests he was granted two further extensions of time-limits of one month respectively. On
3 January 2002
19. On 12 July 2000, the applicant was reinstated in his post at the police headquarters. However, as he was unable to work in the same department on account of aggravated psychosomatic symptoms, he remained on sick-leave until
One week later
36. In late April 2002 local residents discovered a body in a field outside Argun. Upon making the discovery they requested the military commandant's office to exhume it, fearing that it, too, might be booby-trapped.
5 September 2003
15. On 25 February 2005 she brought new proceedings against the Committee, seeking a declaration that its actions had been unlawful in that it had collected and examined her medical records and those of her children, and had communicated the report containing her personal information to the Ministry without obtaining ...
3 September 2001
45. On 24 August 2001 the Russian Presidential Commission on Rights and Freedoms (Комиссия по правам человека при Президенте РФ) forwarded the applicant's complaint concerning the ineffective investigation into the killing of his son to the Prosecutor General's Office for examination. The latter, in its turn, forwarde...
the following day
10. On 28 November 2012, the applicant’s lawyer sent a letter to X requesting that she withdraw her statements, admit they were unfounded, apologise in the media and pay the applicant punitive damages, which would be donated to charity. By letter
17 April 2001
16. On 27 April 2006 the Court of Appeal of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (the Crimea Court of Appeal) overruled the decision of the first-instance court and rejected the first applicant’s complaint. It noted that the investigator had conducted all necessary activities and the first applicant’s complaints were uns...
19 January 2005
62. Despite specific requests by the Court, the Government did not disclose any documents from the investigation files in cases nos. 19109, 14/00/0019-01 and 34/33/0405-01, except for a copy of the decision of
24 November 1995
10. On 4 November 1995 the applicant, for the third time, sued the cooperative in the Gniezno District Court (Sąd Rejonowy) seeking 10,000 PLN in damages. The applicant asked the court to exempt him from the court fees and grant him legal assistance. On
almost ten months
55. The Government submitted that the medical report of March 2001 obtained by the applicant had not been drawn up in conformity with the rules applicable to these kind of documents and that the applicant had failed to apply to a medical institution upon his release to obtain a proper report. They also stressed the pa...
about two years
19. On 4 October 2007, the Refugee Appeals Board upheld the refusal to grant the applicants asylum. It found that the authorities were not aware of the activities carried out by the applicant wife which ended
5 January 2001
29. On 12 January 2001 the investigators forwarded a request to the Military Prosecutor’s Office of military unit no. 20102, asking them to take the following steps: to identify which convoy had passed through Argun on
15 January 2003
69. On 7 June 2005 the second applicant complained to a number of State authorities, including the Minister of the Interior and the Prosecutor General. She complained that the investigators had failed to conduct an effective and thorough investigation into the abduction of her son. In her letters she described in deta...
22 February 1999
27. On 16 February 1999 the applicant's wife asked for the adjournment of a hearing scheduled for 22 February 1999 as her state of health had deteriorated and she needed to be hospitalised. At the hearing on
10 March 2001
35. In May 2001 the NGO Human Rights Watch issued a document entitled “Burying the Evidence: The Botched Investigation into a Mass Grave in Chechnya”. The document referred to the applicants’ case. The document stated that sixteen out of nineteen identified bodies had belonged to persons previously detained by the Sta...
21 February 2007
82. The applicant stated that his wife had wished to visit him on that date not in her private capacity but as his legal representative, with a view to collecting various documents for the purposes of submitting them to the Court. Permission for the visit was refused ostensibly because the applicant’s wife was not a l...
three years
17. In a final judgment of 12 May 2004 (реш. № 342 от 12 май 2004 г. по гр. д. № 1992/2003 г., ВКС, търговска колегия) the Supreme Court of Cassation upheld the Sofia Court of Appeal’s judgment in the following terms: “The Sofia Court of Appeal founded the refusal to register the association on the wording of the arti...
4 December 1998
82. In a further statement taken on 2 December 1998 from the traffic police officer Şevket Y., the latter declared that he had no information about the killing of Yusuf Ekinci. A similar statement was taken on
The following day
10. On the day of the announcement, a member of Bild’s editorial staff attempted to contact the deputy spokesperson for the government, S. (who had continued to occupy this post under the new government), for information on the subject but received no reply.
21 June 2004
57. By an order of the acting head of the Akhtubinsk Town temporary detention unit the applicant was released on 13 July 2004, as, according to the Government, the maximum six-month period of detention prescribed by Article 255 of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure had expired on that date. On
26 January 2011
39. In a letter of 27 December 2010 addressed to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, the Special Representative of the Russian President for international cooperation in the fight against terrorism and transnational organised crime endorsed the request for additional assurances from the Tajik authorities in respe...
10 January 2002
22. On 18 February 2002 the applicant appealed on points of law. He argued in the first place that the appeal proceedings should be declared null and void because he had not been able to participate, as defendant, in the appeal hearing on
24 September to 12 October 2001
80. On 15 March 2008 the investigation was suspended. The applicants were notified of the suspension in a letter which carried the date of 12 March 2008 but were not provided with a copy of the decision. The investigation failed to establish the applicants’ whereabouts from
1 August 2000
33. On 12 December 2000 the second applicant petitioned the General Prosecutor's Office for a complaint in the interest of the law to be filed on his behalf. He challenged the above procedural fine. The fact that the same investigator had accused him of an offence on
before 1998
6. By way of assignments for consideration, done in October 2001 and July 2002, the applicant acquired – through intermediaries – the debts of V. Rt and M. Rt from the Tax Authority. The debts consisted mostly of unpaid payroll taxes and social security contributions and originated in the period
29 January 2003
12. During the court proceedings the authorities further extended the applicant’s detention pending trial on 26 June and 6 December 2001, 8 March, 26 July, 22 November and 18 December 2002 and again on
9 December 2013
27. On 5 November 2013 the Constitutional Court declared the complaint inadmissible. It fully endorsed the reasoning behind the Supreme Court’s decision of 6 December 2012 (see paragraph 18 above) and concluded that, accordingly, the complaint was manifestly ill-founded. The decision was served on the applicant on
11-14 March 2001
43. On 5 May 2003 the SRJI, acting on the applicants' behalf, wrote to the Argun Prosecutor's Office, asking him for news about the investigation in criminal case no. 45031. They inquired if the investigation, which had been suspended in March 2002, had been reopened after the discovery of Mr Akhmadov's body. They als...
21 October 2014
47. On 30 January 2015 the applicant lodged a constitutional complaint against the Koper Higher Court’s decision (see paragraph 45 above). She invoked several provisions of the Constitution, as well as Articles 6, 8 and 14 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 to the Convention. She disputed the lower cou...
17 October 2002
9. On 1 March 2004 the applicant requested information on the documents in his file with the KELA. The documents contained several statements by a medical expert, requested by the KELA at various times. The statements were dated 10 April, 6 June, 22 August and
August 2011
21. The management of Solikamsk colony no. 2 in the Perm Region affirmed in a document dated 27 July 2011 and produced by the Government that they had no document which indicated that the applicant had asked them for special footwear or that it had been recommended (see also paragraph 18 above). The Government also su...
20 October 1998
11. Despite the Court’s request, the applicant has not filed copies of his requests and the relevant decisions regarding the re-opening proceedings. However, according to the information supplied by the Government and corresponding to that supplied by the applicant, the latter, on
26 July 1994
7. The circumstances of the applicant’s stay in Estonia and the Estonian authorities’ refusal to extend his residence permit, as well as a summary of the relevant domestic and international legal provisions may be found in the decision mentioned above. In brief, although the Estonian authorities had finally refused to...
29 September 2011
28. The interlocutory appeal and the requests for review were eventually dismissed by the Office of the Prosecutor General (“the OPG”), which communicated its decision to the applicant in a letter of
between 6 and 11 March 2002
70. On 13 March 2002 the Prosecutor’s Office of the Grozny District (прокуратура Грозненского района) instituted a criminal investigation under Article 105 § 2 (a) of the Russian Criminal Code (murder of two or more persons) into the disappearance of 13 residents of Stariye Atagi, including the applicants’ relatives a...
October 2004
45. The investigation established that the applicant’s son had been detained on 2 February 2000 in Alkhan-Kala, together with other members of illegal armed groups. Immediately after arrest he was handed over to servicemen from the GUIN for transportation to the pre-trial detention centre in Chernokozovo, Chechnya. Kh...
14 February 1997
18. In a written submission of 13 January 1997 the Social Security Administration asked the court to uphold the decision challenged by the applicant. This submission was forwarded to the applicant who submitted a written reply on
24 September 2006
23. On 23 June 2006 the Ryazan Regional Court extended the applicant’s pre-trial detention until he and his lawyer had finished studying the case file (consisting of seventy-five volumes), but not beyond
30 October 1996
51. On 6 November 1996 the applicant’s lawyers lodged an appeal against the decision of 30 October 1996. On 11 November 1996, before transmitting the appeal to the Supreme Court, the Regional Court sitting in private confirmed its decision of
6 March 2009
32. In February 2009 the applicant’s sister, who was representing the applicant before the Court at that time, asked the trial court to give her the police records of the questioning of Y. and his girlfriend, documents concerning the applicant’s search after his arrest, the minutes of the court hearings, and the polic...
30 March 2012
27. On 12 April 2011, following an additional inquiry into the applicant’s complaints, the investigating officer refused to institute criminal proceedings against Officer G. because there were no constituent elements of an offence. In the course of the above inquiry, the investigating officer questioned Officer Ovs., ...
1 July 1995
20. In the fresh first-instance proceedings, on 4 September 2007 the Regional Office adopted a new decision and dismissed the applicant’s request for payment of compensation for reduced ability to work in the period prior to
28 August 2001
12. On 15 August 2001, the applicant was informed of the Minister’s intention (voornemen) to declare her an undesirable alien entailing the imposition of an exclusion order (ongewenstverklaring). The applicant was given the opportunity to react to this intention in the course of an interview conducted by the Aliens’ P...
22 November 1996
7. On 13 September 1996 the first applicant brought a civil action requesting the Skopje Court of First Instance (“the first-instance court”) to order the company to register the sales contracts in its book of shareholders and to provide them with a certificate of title. On
15 February 2007
39. The Constitutional Court then addressed what it regarded as the main question in the amparo appeal, namely, the alleged violation of Articles 16 and 20 of the Constitution. It thus sought to ascertain whether the facts in issue could be justified by the religious freedom of the Catholic Church (Article 16 § 1 of t...
13 August 2004
108. On 1 November 2004 the Town Court rejected her complaint. The decision stated, amongst other things, the following: “... During the investigation the district prosecutor’s office carried out the court’s orders of
September 2000
10. On 11 January 2002, the Ministry, acting as the Central Authority for the purpose of the Hague Convention, instituted proceedings on behalf of the first applicant before the Bucharest District Court of the Sixth Precinct. Based on the evidence adduced in the case, the district court found that the retention of the...
25 January 2007
7. The applicant’s previous representative did not attend first preliminary hearing fixed for 15 November 2006, since he had been deleted from the register of the attorneys–at-law in May 2006. The applicant appointed the present representative on
the end of August 1999
10. In 1998 the applicant published a book about taxation in which the above-mentioned court case was cited. It was mentioned that “[i]n any event, the senior tax inspector [A.] committed perjury fully knowingly and intentionally. But why not as her husband is the public prosecutor [X.]. who works for [name of the off...
3 June 2002
13. In March 2002 Mr Pr waived his right to be present at hearings and asked the court to render a judgment with reference to his depositions made over the previous years. On 9 April 2002 the court resumed the proceedings. A hearing was scheduled for
30 July 1999
13. On 29 May 1998 the Supreme Medical Court (Naczelny Sąd Lekarski), upheld the first-instance court’s decision. The court considered that the applicant’s actions were highly reprehensible and harmful not only to the medical profession but also to the patient, as the opinion gave him to believe, groundlessly, that he...
A year later
11. On the same day a judge of the Kirovskiy District Court of Yaroslavl issued a decision to indicate interim measures (определение об обеспечении иска). The decision endorsed the arguments put forward by Judge Baskova and read, in its entirety, as follows: “The plaintiff has referred to the following circumstances. ...
5 September 1994
9. On 19 May 1993 plans for improving a major road on the edge of the Saintes urban area were declared to be in the public interest. Completion of this operation required the expropriation of various plots of land, including twenty-one hectares belonging to the applicant. The expropriation liability order was issued o...
17 May 2002
5. The applicant, who was born in 1972, is serving a thirty-year prison sentence imposed on 31 May 2007 by the Meurthe-et-Moselle Assize Court for murder, attempted murder and assault involving the use or threatened use of a weapon. He has been imprisoned since
4 December 2009
16. As of 3 December 2009 the Central Investigation Prosecutor’s Office charged the prison detaining the applicant (Fővárosi BV. Intézet) with the responsibility to determine the length and frequency of family contacts. It instructed the penitentiary to grant, in particular, a family visit also in December. From
August 2008
51. She was provided with additional classes in Croatian in the first grade. In the first grade she participated in extracurricular activities in a mixed group, in the second grade in dancing, in the third grade in handicraft classes, and in the fifth grade in a choir. After reaching the age of 15, she left school in
10 May 2011
27. On 18 July 2003 chief sergeant Y. requested that the proceedings against him be discontinued under Article 239a of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1974, a provision added in June 2003 and allowing persons charged with criminal offences to request either to be brought to trial or to have the charges against them dro...
the end of 1999
56. In this report, Mr Connor drew attention to the controversy concerning the figures for displaced persons. The Turkish authorities’ official figure for “evacuated persons” amounts to 378,000 originating from 3,165 villages at