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dev
001-88762
ENG
HUN
CHAMBER
2,008
CASE OF KALMAR AND LORENCZ v. HUNGARY
4
Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial
András Sajó;Françoise Tulkens;Ireneu Cabral Barreto;Nona Tsotsoria;Vladimiro Zagrebelsky
4. The applicants were born in 1960 and 1928 respectively and live in Budapest. 5. On 8 November 1996 the applicants brought an action against Mr M., claiming moral damages for the latter’s insulting behaviour. The Dombóvár District Court initially suspended the proceedings pending the outcome of the criminal case bein...
1
dev
001-76586
ENG
DEU
ADMISSIBILITY
2,006
WEBER AND SARAVIA v. GERMANY
1
Inadmissible
David Thór Björgvinsson
1. The first applicant, Ms Gabriele Weber, is a German national. The second applicant, Mr Cesar Richard Saravia, is a Uruguayan national. Both applicants live in Montevideo (Uruguay). They were represented before the Court by Mr W. Kaleck, a lawyer practising in Berlin, and by Mr E. Schwan, a university professor in Be...
0
dev
001-83520
ENG
DEU
ADMISSIBILITY
2,007
BRZANK v. GERMANY
4
Inadmissible
Peer Lorenzen
The applicant, Mrs Ines Brzank, is a German national who was born in 1969 and lives in Oschatz. The applicant is a practising lawyer who specialises, inter alia, in sports law. She distributed a leaflet containing her curriculum vitae, which mentioned her career as an athlete in the national team of the German Democrat...
0
dev
001-57679
ENG
ITA
CHAMBER
1,991
CASE OF F.C.B. v. ITALY
3
Violation of Art. 6-1+6-3-c;Damage - finding of violation sufficient;Costs and expenses award - Convention proceedings
C. Russo
9. On 20 September 1972, in the course of an armed robbery in the province of Bergamo, two masked criminals killed one person and seriously injured another; they then fled in a car driven by an accomplice. Among the suspects, who were swiftly identified, was the applicant. 10. Mr F.C.B. was arrested in Switzerland on 9...
1
dev
001-75617
ENG
FRA
ADMISSIBILITY
2,005
SCEA FERME DE FRESNOY v. FRANCE [Extracts]
1
Inadmissible
null
The applicant company, SCEA Ferme de Fresnoy, is an agricultural partnership with unlimited liability (société civile d’exploitation agricole). Its registered office is situated at Port-Saint-Nicolas in the administrative district of Saint-Nicolas-la-Chapelle and its manager, Mr Bertrand Mangeot, acts on its behalf. It...
0
dev
001-61583
ENG
POL
CHAMBER
2,004
CASE OF D.P. v. POLAND
3
Violation of Art. 5-1;Violation of Art. 5-3;No violation of Art. 34;Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award
Nicolas Bratza
9. The applicant was born in 1965 and lives in Opole, Poland. 10. On 16 June 1995 the applicant was taken into custody by the police. On 17 June 1995 the Wrocław Regional Court (Sąd Wojewódzki) dismissed his complaint about placing him in police custody. 11. On 17 June 1995 the Wrocław Regional Prosecutor (Prokurator W...
1
dev
001-105291
ENG
HRV
CHAMBER
2,011
CASE OF ORLIC v. CROATIA
3
Violation of Art. 8;Remainder inadmissible;Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - award
Anatoly Kovler;Elisabeth Steiner;George Nicolaou;Khanlar Hajiyev;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska;Peer Lorenzen
4. The applicant was born in 1950 and lives in Punat, on the Krk island in Croatia. 5. The applicant was in active military service with the former Yugoslav People’s Army (hereinafter: “the YPA”) for almost twenty-three years, until 25 June 1991, when he voluntarily left the YPA and moved from Postojna, Slovenia, where...
1
dev
001-86635
ENG
ALB
ADMISSIBILITY
2,008
NATIONAL NOTARY CHAMBER v. ALBANIA
4
Inadmissible
David Thór Björgvinsson;Ján Šikuta;Lech Garlicki;Mihai Poalelungi;Nicolas Bratza;Päivi Hirvelä
The applicant is the National Notary Chamber of Albania (Dhoma Kombëtare e Noterisë) (“the applicant organisation”). The applicant organisation is represented before the Court by its President and representative Mrs Sh. Kurti. organisation, may be summarised as follows. The applicant organisation was established by Law...
0
dev
001-5085
ENG
EST
ADMISSIBILITY
2,000
SVINARENKOV v. ESTONIA
4
Inadmissible
Elisabeth Palm;Gaukur Jörundsson
The applicant is an Estonian citizen, born in 1966 and currently serving a prison sentence in Estonia. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. A. On 17 April 1995 criminal proceedings were instituted against the applicant on the suspicion of his having committed a murder on the...
0
dev
001-101352
ENG
LVA
ADMISSIBILITY
2,010
LOBANOVS v. LATVIA
4
Inadmissible
Alvina Gyulumyan;Corneliu Bîrsan;Egbert Myjer;Elisabet Fura;Ineta Ziemele;Josep Casadevall
1. The applicant, Mr Leons Lobanovs, is a Latvian national who was born in 1952 and lives in Daugavpils. 2. The Latvian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mrs Inga Reine. 3. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. 1. Alleged ill-treatment and investi...
0
dev
001-5221
ENG
GBR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,000
G.H. B. v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
4
Inadmissible
Nicolas Bratza
The applicant is a British citizen born in 1924 and living in Wokingham, Berkshire. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. The applicant’s grand-daughter, H, was born in July 1985. In August 1993, H’s mother (the applicant’s daughter, P), who lived in Tyneside, north-east Eng...
0
dev
001-58750
ENG
POL
CHAMBER
2,000
CASE OF TRZASKA v. POLAND
3
Violation of Art. 5-3;Violation of Art. 5-4;Violation of Art. 6-1;Damage - finding of violation sufficient;Costs and expenses partial award
Elisabeth Palm
7. On 27 June 1991 the Jastrzębie Zdrój District Prosecutor issued a warrant of arrest against the applicant who was suspected of attempted manslaughter, robbery and rape. He was arrested on the same day. 8. On 23 September 1991 the Katowice Regional Court (Sąd Wojewódzki) prolonged the detention on remand until 30 Nov...
1
dev
001-75247
ENG
SVN
CHAMBER
2,006
CASE OF GRUSOVNIK v. SLOVENIA
4
Violation of Art. 6-1;Violation of Art. 13;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award;Costs and expenses partial award - Convention proceedings
David Thór Björgvinsson;John Hedigan
5. The applicant was born in 1960 and lives in Zgornji Dolič. 6. On 9 January 1993 the applicant was injured in an accident at work. The applicant’s employer had taken out insurance with the insurance company ZT. 7. On 30 August 1995 the applicant instituted civil proceedings against ZT in the Celje District Court (Okr...
1
dev
001-82223
ENG
UKR
CHAMBER
2,007
CASE OF SHAMRAY v. UKRAINE
4
Violation of Art. 6-1;Violation of P1-1
Peer Lorenzen
4. The applicant was born in 1954 and lives in Yenakiyeve. 5. In 1999 the applicant instituted civil proceedings against his former employers, the State-owned mines “Yenakiyivska” and “Poltavska”, seeking compensation for damage to his health. 6. On 12 February 1999 the Yenakiyeve Court (Єнакіївський міський суд) order...
1
dev
001-108595
ENG
TUR
COMMITTEE
2,012
CASE OF DOLUTAŞ v. TURKEY
4
Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Criminal proceedings;Article 6-1 - Reasonable time);Violation of Article 13 - Right to an effective remedy (Article 13 - Effective remedy)
András Sajó;Paulo Pinto De Albuquerque
4. The applicant was born in 1977 in Sivas. 5. On 6 May 1998 the applicant was taken into police custody on suspicion of being a member of an illegal organisation. 6. On 9 May 1998 he was brought before the public prosecutor and investigating judge at the Istanbul State Security Court, who ordered his pre-trial detenti...
1
dev
001-100690
ENG
RUS
CHAMBER
2,010
CASE OF PAKHOMOV v. RUSSIA
3
Remainder inadmissible;No violation of Art. 3
Anatoly Kovler;Christos Rozakis;Elisabeth Steiner;George Nicolaou;Giorgio Malinverni;Khanlar Hajiyev
6. The applicant was born in 1980 and lives in the town of Artyom, Primorye Region. 7. On 27 April 2007 a group of police officers entered the applicant's flat, intending to search it. The applicant, who had been offered the opportunity to hand over any illegal substances before the search, handed the police officers 2...
0
dev
001-58118
ENG
GRC
CHAMBER
1,997
CASE OF STAMOULAKATOS v. GREECE (No. 2)
3
Preliminary objection rejected (non-exhaustion of domestic remedies);Preliminary objection rejected (ratione temporis);Violation of Art. 6-1;Not necessary to examine Art. 13;Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award;Costs and expenses - claim dismissed
C. Russo;N. Valticos
6. The applicant is a Greek national born in 1936 and currently resident in the United Kingdom. 7. On 23 February 1987 he submitted to the Prefecture of Athens an application for a disability pension under section 31 of Law no. 1543/85. 8. On the orders of the Prefecture an administrative inquiry was carried out by the...
1
dev
001-23468
ENG
POL
ADMISSIBILITY
2,003
SZOTT-MEDYNSKA AND OTHERS v. POLAND
3
Inadmissible
Georg Ress;Mark Villiger
The first applicant, Ms Dorota Szott-Medyńska, is a Polish national, born in 1954. She runs a family business together with the second and third applicants, Mr Maciej Medyński and Mr Krzysztof Medyński. They reside in Skierniewice. They are represented before the Court by Ms Mirosława Sztandera, a lawyer practising in ...
0
dev
001-105768
ENG
SVN
COMMITTEE
2,011
CASE OF STREHAR v. SLOVENIA
4
Violation of Art. 6-1;Violation of Art. 13
Angelika Nußberger;Ganna Yudkivska
5. The applicant was born in 1943 and lives in Polskava. 6. On 5 September 1997 the applicant instituted civil proceedings before the Slovenska Bistrica Local Court seeking annulment of a purchase contract. 7. On 6 July 1999 the first-instance court annulled the contract. An appeal was lodged. 8. On 24 October 2000 the...
1
dev
001-106147
ENG
RUS
ADMISSIBILITY
2,011
VLADIMIR KUZNETSOV v. RUSSIA
4
Inadmissible
Anatoly Kovler;George Nicolaou;Julia Laffranque;Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska;Peer Lorenzen
The applicant, Mr Vladimir Alekseyevich Kuznetsov, is a Russian national who was born in 1987 and lives in the town of Nizhniy Novgorod. He was represented before the Court by Ms L. Zhukova, Mr M. Bereza and Mr V. Andreyev, lawyers practising in Nizhniy Novgorod. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, ma...
0
dev
001-61482
ENG
POL
CHAMBER
2,003
CASE OF MATWIEJCZUK v. POLAND
3
Violation of Art. 5-3;Violation of Art. 6-1;Violation of Art. 8 with regard to monitoring of correspondence;Not necessary to examine Art. 34;No violation of Art. 8 with regard to delay of correspondence;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award;Costs and expenses partial award - Convention proceedings
Matti Pellonpää
9. The applicant was born in 1966 and is currently detained in the Radom prison. 10. In July 1996 the applicant was released from prison. On 11 September 1996 the police arrested him. The police suspected that on 10 September 1996 the applicant had committed an armed robbery and rape. At the same time, the police enfor...
1
dev
001-84459
ENG
CZE
ADMISSIBILITY
2,008
JEDLICKA v. THE CZECH REPUBLIC
4
Inadmissible
Javier Borrego Borrego;Karel Jungwiert;Mark Villiger;Peer Lorenzen;Rait Maruste;Renate Jaeger;Snejana Botoucharova
The applicant, Mr Jiří Jedlička, is a Czech national who was born in 1954 and lives in Přerov. The Czech Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr V.A Schorm, from the Ministry of Justice. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. In November 1999 the appl...
0
dev
001-85241
ENG
CZE
ADMISSIBILITY
2,008
MORAVIA SHOP INVEST, S.R.O. v. THE CZECH REPUBLIC
4
Inadmissible
Karel Jungwiert;Margarita Tsatsa-Nikolovska;Mark Villiger;Peer Lorenzen;Rait Maruste;Snejana Botoucharova;Volodymyr Butkevych
The applicant, Moravia Shop Invest, s.r.o., is a private company incorporated under Czech law with its head office in Prague. The Czech Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr V.A. Schorm, from the Ministry of Justice. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as fo...
0
dev
001-60498
ENG
TUR
CHAMBER
2,002
CASE OF SADAK AND OTHERS v. TURKEY (No. 2)
1
Violation of Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 - Right to free elections-{general} (Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 - Free expression of the opinion of the people;Stand for election);Pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage - award (Article 41 - Non-pecuniary damage;Pecuniary damage;Freedom from attachment)
Nicolas Bratza
11. The applicants, who were born in 1954, 1961, 1955, 1957, 1955, 1961, 1942, 1951, 1956, 1946, 1961, 1959 and 1948 respectively, are Turkish nationals. They were members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and the DEP (Democracy Party – Demokrasi Partisi), a political party which was dissolved by the Constitutiona...
1
dev
001-88690
ENG
GBR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,008
PAY v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
2
Inadmissible
Giovanni Bonello;Lech Garlicki;Ledi Bianku;Nebojša Vučinić;Nicolas Bratza;Päivi Hirvelä
The applicant, Mr Laurence Pay, is a British national who was born in 1951 and lives in Kirkham. He was represented before the Court by Liberty, a non-governmental organisation based in London. The United Kingdom Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ms E. Willmott, Foreign and Commonwealth Off...
0
dev
001-61818
ENG
FIN
CHAMBER
2,004
CASE OF TAMMINEN v. FINLAND
3
Violation of Art. 6-1;Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - finding of violation sufficient;Costs and expenses (domestic proceedings) - claim dismissed;Costs and expenses partial award - Convention proceedings
Nicolas Bratza
8. The applicant was born in 1947 and lives in Helsinki. 9. In 1987 the applicant founded a company called “Oy Finnish Options and Futures Exchanges Ltd” (hereinafter “FOFE”). 10. FOFE went into liquidation on 12 August 1993 and was finally dissolved on 16 May 1994. 11. In the liquidation proceedings the applicant file...
1
dev
001-72732
ENG
AZE
ADMISSIBILITY
2,006
GULIYEV AND RAMAZANOV v. AZERBAIJAN
4
Inadmissible
Christos Rozakis
The applicants, Mr Latif Guliyev and Cerulla Ramazanov, are Azerbaijani nationals who, respectively, were born in 1947 and 1951 and live in Baku and Sumgayit. They were represented before the Court by Ms L. Claridge and Messrs M. Muller, T. Otty and K. Yildiz of the Kurdish Human Rights Project, lawyers practising in L...
0
dev
001-109115
ENG
HRV
ADMISSIBILITY
2,012
MILJAK v. CROATIA
4
Inadmissible
Anatoly Kovler;Elisabeth Steiner;Erik Møse;Julia Laffranque;Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska
1. The applicant, Mr Eduard Miljak, is a Croatian national who was born in 1978 and is currently serving a prison term in Lipovica Prison. He is represented before the Court by Mr S. Simić, a lawyer practising in Pula. The Croatian Government (“the Government”) are represented by their Agent, Ms Š. Stažnik. 2. The fact...
0
dev
001-93812
ENG
GEO
ADMISSIBILITY
2,009
NAZARETIAN v. GEORGIA
4
Inadmissible
András Sajó;Françoise Tulkens;Ireneu Cabral Barreto;Nona Tsotsoria;Vladimiro Zagrebelsky
The applicant, Mrs Liana Nazaretian, is a Georgian national who was born in 1959 and lives in Tbilisi. She was represented before the Court by Mr Malkhaz Labadze, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi. The Georgian Government (“the Government”) were successively represented by their Agents, Mr David Tomadze and Mr Levan Meskh...
0
dev
001-58372
ENG
TUR
GRANDCHAMBER
1,999
CASE OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY PARTY (ÖZDEP) v. TURKEY
1
Preliminary objection dismissed (Article 34 - Victim);Violation of Article 11 - Freedom of assembly and association (Article 11-1 - Freedom of association);Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed (Article 41 - Pecuniary damage;Just satisfaction);Non-pecuniary damage - award (Article 41 - Non-pecuniary damage;Just satisfacti...
Luzius Wildhaber;Paul Mahoney
8. The Freedom and Democracy Party (ÖZDEP) was founded on 19 October 1992. Its constitution was lodged with the Ministry of the Interior the same day. Its programme included the following passages. “... Following the war of ‘Liberation’ waged jointly by Kurds, Turks and other national minorities, the Sultanate was abol...
1
dev
001-67820
ENG
GRC
GRANDCHAMBER
2,004
CASE OF MAKARATZIS v. GREECE
1
Violation of Art. 2 with regard to the failure to protect the right to life;Violation of Art. 2 with regard to the lack of an effective investigation;Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award
Luzius Wildhaber;Nicolas Bratza;Paul Mahoney
10. The applicant was born in 1967 and lives in Athens. 11. In the evening of 13 September 1995 the police tried to stop the applicant, who had driven through a red traffic light in the centre of Athens, near the American embassy. Instead of stopping, the applicant accelerated. He was chased by several police officers ...
1
dev
001-22093
ENG
FRA
ADMISSIBILITY
2,000
ORGANISATION NATIONALE DES SYNDICATS D'INFIRMIERS LIBÉRAUX (ONSIL) v. FRANCE
1
Inadmissible
null
The applicant is a trade union whose head office is in Toulouse and whose object is to defend the interests of self-employed nurses. It is represented before the Court by Mr Christian Bettinger of the Paris Bar. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. Since the enactment of the...
0
dev
001-79601
ENG
AUT
ADMISSIBILITY
2,007
GRUNER KLUB IM RATHAUS v. AUSTRIA
3
Inadmissible
Christos Rozakis
The applicant, Grüner Klub im Rathaus, is the fraction of an Austrian party to the Vienna Regional Parliament (Landtag). It was represented before the Court by Mrs M. Windhager, a lawyer practising in Vienna. The respondent Government were represented by Mr F. Trauttmansdorff, Head of the International law Department a...
0
dev
001-57471
ENG
BEL
CHAMBER
1,982
CASE OF VAN DROOGENBROECK v. BELGIUM
2
Violation of Art. 5-4;No violation of Art. 5-1;No violation of Art. 4;Just satisfaction reserved
C. Russo
9. The applicant is a Belgian national, born in 1940. He has no fixed occupation. On 29 July 1970, the Bruges criminal court (tribunal correctionnel) sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment for theft, and attempted theft, committed with the aid of skeleton keys. The court also ordered that he be "placed at the Governm...
1
dev
001-115649
ENG
NLD
ADMISSIBILITY
2,012
RUSHING v. THE NETHERLANDS
4
Inadmissible
Alvina Gyulumyan;Corneliu Bîrsan;Ján Šikuta;Johannes Silvis;Josep Casadevall;Luis López Guerra;Nona Tsotsoria
1. The applicant, Mr Lee Summerfield Rushing, is a citizen of the United States of America (USA), who was born in 1943. He was detained in the Netherlands at the time of the introduction of the application. He was represented before the Court by Mr D.W.H.M. Wolters, a lawyer practising in Hoofddorp. 2. The Netherlands ...
0
dev
001-90435
ENG
UKR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,008
SERDYUK v. UKRAINE
4
Inadmissible
Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre;Karel Jungwiert;Mark Villiger;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska;Peer Lorenzen;Rait Maruste;Renate Jaeger
The applicant, Mr Vitaliy Andreyevich Serdyuk, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1939 and lives in Chernigiv. In 1986 the applicant, at that time a military officer, was engaged in emergency relief operations at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, within the “Chernobyl alienation zone” (тридцятикіло...
0
dev
001-68490
ENG
SVK
ADMISSIBILITY
2,005
KOMANICKY v. SLOVAKIA
4
Inadmissible
Nicolas Bratza
The applicant, Mr Ioan Kornelij Komanický, is a Slovakian national who was born in 1943 and lives in Bardejov. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows. On 4 June 2002 the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in application No. 32106/96 filed by the applicant. ...
0
dev
001-77072
ENG
RUS
CHAMBER
2,006
CASE OF PRISYAZHNIKOVA AND DOLGOPOLOV v. RUSSIA
3
Violation of Art. 6-1;Violation of P1-1;Pecuniary damage - financial awards;Non-pecuniary damage - financial awards
Christos Rozakis
4. The applicants were born 1966 and 1934 respectively, and live in Neryungri in the Sakha (Yakutiya) Republic of the Russian Federation. 5. The applicants brought a civil action against the Government, seeking to enforce State promissory notes for purchase of a Russian-made car or to recover the monetary value thereof...
1
dev
001-22336
ENG
CHE
ADMISSIBILITY
2,002
MIR v. SWITZERLAND
4
Inadmissible
Nicolas Bratza
The applicant, Zakria Sadiq Mir, is a citizen of the United Kingdom born in 1937. A lawyer and banker by profession, he resides in Zurich in Switzerland. After marrying in 1968 the applicant and his then wife moved to the United Kingdom where they took up residence with their two children, born in 1967 and 1970 respect...
0
dev
001-58270
ENG
TUR
GRANDCHAMBER
1,999
CASE OF CEYLAN v. TURKEY
1
Violation of Art. 10;Not necessary to examine Art. 14+10;Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award;Costs and expenses partial award - Convention proceedings
Luzius Wildhaber;Paul Mahoney
8. The applicant, who was at the time the president of the petroleum workers’ union (Petrol-İş Sendikası), wrote an article entitled “The time has come for the workers to speak out – tomorrow it will be too late” (“Söz işçinin, yarın çok geç olacaktır”) in the 21-28 July 1991 issue of Yeni Ülke (“New Land”), a weekly n...
1
dev
001-5588
ENG
DEU
ADMISSIBILITY
2,000
SCHMELZER v. GERMANY
4
Inadmissible
Antonio Pastor Ridruejo
The applicant is a German national, born in 1925 and living in Heidesheim (Germany). The respondent Government are represented by their Agent Mr K. Stoltenberg, Ministerialdirigent, of the Federal Ministry of Justice. On 31 January 1994 the Bingen District Court (Amtsgericht) convicted the applicant, a recidivist offen...
0
dev
001-58218
ENG
FRA
CHAMBER
1,998
CASE OF SOUMARE v. FRANCE
3
Preliminary objection joined to merits (non-exhaustion of domestic remedies);Violation of Art. 5-4;Damage - finding of violation sufficient;Costs and expenses - claim dismissed
R. Pekkanen
6. Mr Abdourahim Soumare, a Malian national, had no fixed abode in France when he was convicted. He now lives in Mali. 7. He was arrested in Paris and remanded in custody on 22 January 1988 in connection with a heroin-trafficking operation involving five other people. He was charged with illegally importing controlled ...
1
dev
001-104281
ENG
UKR
CHAMBER
2,011
CASE OF SIRYK v. UKRAINE
3
Preliminary objection joined to merits and dismissed (victim);Violation of Art. 10
Angelika Nußberger;Dean Spielmann;Elisabet Fura;Ganna Yudkivska;Karel Jungwiert;Mark Villiger
4. The applicant was born in 1959 and lives in Irpin. 5. On 23 March 2005 the applicant sent to the State Tax Administration a letter in which she complained that the management of the Academy of the State Tax Service, which was under the authority of the State Tax Administration and at which her son had studied before...
1
dev
001-77745
ENG
HUN
CHAMBER
2,006
CASE OF FOLDES AND FOLDESNE HAJLIK v. HUNGARY
1
Violation of P4-2-2 in respect of the first applicant;Remainder inadmissible;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award
András Baka;Antonella Mularoni;Elisabet Fura;Ireneu Cabral Barreto;Jean-Paul Costa
4. The applicants were born in 1957 and 1958 respectively and live in Miskolc. 5. On 10 December 1992 a company, E. Ltd., laid charges of fraudulent bankruptcy and other offences against the applicants, then a married couple. Subsequently, the Borsod County Police Department instituted criminal proceedings against the ...
0
dev
001-109909
ENG
BGR
CHAMBER
2,012
CASE OF LOLOVA-KARADZHOVA v. BULGARIA
3
Violation of Article 5 - Right to liberty and security (Article 5-1 - Lawful arrest or detention;Article 5-1-b - Secure fulfilment of obligation prescribed by law;Article 5-5 - Compensation);Non-pecuniary damage - award (Article 41 - Non-pecuniary damage)
David Thór Björgvinsson;George Nicolaou;Lech Garlicki;Ledi Bianku;Päivi Hirvelä;Vincent A. De Gaetano;Zdravka Kalaydjieva
5. The applicant was born in 1947 and lives in Sofia. 6. In 2004 a real estate agent brought a private prosecution against the applicant for insult and defamation punishable by a fine and public reprimand. According to the complaint, in a newspaper announcement the applicant, describing herself as “the deceived citizen...
1
dev
001-112204
ENG
MLT
CHAMBER
2,012
CASE OF MUSCAT v. MALTA
4
No violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Civil proceedings;Article 6-1 - Fair hearing);No violation of Article 13 - Right to an effective remedy (Article 13 - Effective remedy)
David Scicluna;David Thór Björgvinsson;George Nicolaou;Lech Garlicki;Ledi Bianku;Nicolas Bratza;Päivi Hirvelä
6. The applicant was born in 1970 and lives in Malta. 7. The applicant was one of the parties to civil proceedings instituted against, inter alia, him (as possessor), concerning the recission of a contract of perpetual emphyteusis of a hotel owing to a failure to effect the relevant payments, namely John Bugeja et prop...
0
dev
001-66831
ENG
POL
CHAMBER
2,004
CASE OF DUDEK v. POLAND
4
Violation of Art. 6-1 with regard to the length of the proceedings;Inadmissible under Art. 6-1 with regard to the fairness of the proceedings;Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award
Nicolas Bratza
4. The applicant was born in 1920 and lives in Katowice, Poland. 5. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. 6. Since 1965, the applicant’s relatives, Z.D. and L.D, have occupied a part of the applicant’s property, with the agreement of the applicant. It appears that Z.D. and L....
1
dev
001-107753
ENG
SVK
ADMISSIBILITY
2,011
KOBIDA v. SLOVAKIA
4
Inadmissible
Corneliu Bîrsan;Egbert Myjer;Ineta Ziemele;Ján Šikuta;Josep Casadevall;Kristina Pardalos;Nona Tsotsoria
1. The applicant, Mr Peter Kobida, is a Slovak national who was born in 1948 and lives in Prešov. The Government of the Slovak Republic (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ms M. Pirošíková. 2. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. 3. The applicant is handicapp...
0
dev
001-68394
ENG
LTU
CHAMBER
2,005
CASE OF JANKAUSKAS v. LITHUANIA
3
Preliminary objection rejected (non-exhaustion of domestic remedies);Violation of Art. 8;Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award;Costs and expenses partial award - domestic proceedings;Costs and expenses partial award - Convention proceedings
null
8. The applicant was born in 1972. He lives in Šiauliai. 9. The applicant, a former police investigator, was suspected of abuse of office and bribery. His detention on remand was ordered by the Šiauliai City District Court on 12 March 1999 on the fear of his absconding and influencing witnesses. His remand in custody w...
1
dev
001-81912
ENG
BGR
CHAMBER
2,007
CASE OF ANDREI GEORGIEV v. BULGARIA
3
Preliminary objection allowed (non-exhaustion of domestic remedies);No violation of Art. 3;Violation of Art. 13+3;Remainder inadmissible;Damage - financial award;Costs and expenses partial award - Convention proceedings
Peer Lorenzen
6. On 3 October 1999 an individual was found bleeding in front of a discotheque with a broken jawbone. The applicant had previously had a confrontation with that person in the discotheque and both had been seen leaving at approximately the same time. 7. The victim's father filed a complaint with the police on an unspec...
1
dev
001-84196
ENG
CZE
ADMISSIBILITY
2,007
SEBIK AND STERNOVA v. THE CZECH REPUBLIC
4
Inadmissible
Peer Lorenzen
The applicants are: Mr Jaroslav Šebík and Ms Jana Šternová, born in 1946 and 1949 respectively, living in Zlín and represented by V. Jablonský, a lawyer practising in Prague; Mr Josef Krejčí, born in 1928 and residing in Čachtice; Mr Jiří Beran, born in 1945 and living in Prague; Ms Johanna Kammerlander, born in 1947 a...
0
dev
001-110459
ENG
TUR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,012
CHARALAMBOUS AND OTHERS v. TURKEY
4
Inadmissible
David Thór Björgvinsson;Lech Garlicki;Ledi Bianku;Loukis Loucaides;Nebojša Vučinić;Päivi Hirvelä;Zdravka Kalaydjieva
1. The applicants are Cypriot nationals. Their names, dates of birth and places of residence are set out in the Annex. They are represented by Mr Christos M. Triantafyllides, Mr Andreas Angelides, Mr Achilleas Demetriades, Mr Achilles Emilianides, Mr Christos Clerides, Ms Kallistheni Demetriou Stivarou, Mr Constantinos...
0
dev
001-4716
ENG
POL
ADMISSIBILITY
1,999
RUDZINSKA v. POLAND
1
Inadmissible
Matti Pellonpää
The applicant is a Polish citizen born in 1975. She is a student residing in Toruń. A. In 1984 the applicant’s father opened on her behalf a special housing savings account in the State Savings Bank in Toruń, with the purpose of financing a future purchase of a house or apartment for the applicant after her coming of a...
0
dev
001-57902
ENG
NLD
CHAMBER
1,994
CASE OF PELLADOAH v. THE NETHERLANDS
3
Violation of Art. 6-1+6-3-c;Not necessary to examine Art. 6-2;Non-pecuniary damage - finding of violation sufficient
R. Pekkanen
8. Mr Satyanund Pelladoah is a Mauritian national born in 1947 and resident in Quatre Bornes, Mauritius. 9. On 27 December 1985 Mr Pelladoah was arrested at Schiphol Airport after customs officials found more than twenty kilograms of heroin, some of it mixed with methaqualone (a synthetic psychotropic drug), in a suitc...
1
dev
001-77903
ENG
SVK
ADMISSIBILITY
2,006
SIRMIUM SPOL.S R.O. v. SLOVAKIA
4
Inadmissible
Nicolas Bratza
The applicant is a commercial private limited liability company which was established in 1996. Its registered name is SIRMIUM, spol. s r.o. and it was represented before the Court by Ms Z. Kupcová, a lawyer practising in Bratislava. The respondent Government were represented by Mrs A. Poláčková, their Agent. The facts ...
0
dev
001-71522
ENG
RUS
ADMISSIBILITY
2,005
ELSANOVA v. RUSSIA
3
Inadmissible
Nicolas Bratza
The applicant, Aminat Madarovna Elsanova, is a Russian national, who was born in 1955. She currently lives in Samashki, Achkhoy-Martan District, Chechnya. Before March 2000 she used to live in Grozny. She is represented before the Court by William Bowring and Kirill Koroteyev, lawyers of the Human Rights Centre Memoria...
0
dev
001-59219
ENG
TUR
CHAMBER
2,001
CASE OF CICEK v. TURKEY
2
Violation of Article 2 - Right to life (Article 2-1 - Life) (Substantive aspect);No violation of Article 3 - Prohibition of torture (Article 3 - Inhuman punishment;Inhuman treatment);Violation of Article 5 - Right to liberty and security (Article 5-1 - Security of person);Violation of Article 3 - Prohibition of torture...
Elisabeth Palm;Feyyaz Gölcüklü
7. The applicant, Mrs Hamsa Çiçek, who was born in 1930, is a Turkish citizen and lives in Dernek, a village in Lice District of the province of Diyarbakır in South-East Turkey. Her application is brought on behalf of herself, as well as of her two sons, Tahsin (44 years old in 1994) and Ali İhsan Çiçek (20 years old i...
1
dev
001-90636
ENG
UKR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,008
VITRENKO AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE
3
Inadmissible
Karel Jungwiert;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska;Peer Lorenzen;Rait Maruste;Renate Jaeger;Zdravka Kalaydjieva;Zoryana Bortnovska
The first applicant, Ms Nataliya Mykhaylivna Vitrenko, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1951 and lives in Kyiv. The second, third, fourth and fifth applicant are, respectively, Mr Volodymyr Romanovich Marchenko, Ms Liudmila Yakivna Bezugla, Mr Mykhailo Yuriyovich Sydoruk and Mr Petro Mykhailovych Romanchuk, who ...
0
dev
001-95031
ENG
MLT
GRANDCHAMBER
2,009
CASE OF MICALLEF v. MALTA
1
Preliminary objections dismissed (victim, non-exhaustion of domestic remedies, ratione materiae);Violation of Art. 6-1;Non-pecuniary damage - finding of violation sufficient
András Sajó;Anatoly Kovler;Christos Rozakis;Corneliu Bîrsan;Egbert Myjer;Elisabet Fura;Françoise Tulkens;Giorgio Malinverni;Giovanni Bonello;Ján Šikuta;Jean-Paul Costa;Josep Casadevall;Karel Jungwiert;Khanlar Hajiyev;Kristaq Traja;Lech Garlicki;Matti Pellonpää;Mihai Poalelungi;Nicolas Bratza;Päivi Hirvelä;Vladimiro Zag...
9. The applicant was born in 1929 and lives in Vittoriosa. 10. The applicant is the brother of Mrs M., who lived in an apartment above Mr F. 11. On 17 July 1985 Mr F. applied for an injunction to restrain Mrs M. from hanging out clothes to dry over the courtyard of his apartment, thereby allegedly interfering with his ...
1
dev
001-77950
ENG
UKR
CHAMBER
2,006
CASE OF BELUKHA v. UKRAINE
3
Remainder inadmissible;Violation of Art. 6-1;No violation of Art. 6-1 (length);Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - finding of violation sufficient;Costs and expenses award - Convention proceedings;Costs and expenses (domestic proceedings) - claim dismissed
Peer Lorenzen
4. The applicant was born in 1957 and lives in the town of Artemivsk, the Donetsk region. 5. On 14 August 1997 the applicant was transferred from her position of deputy director of the Joint Stock Company “Artemivska Raiagrotekhnika” (“the Company”) to the position of economist. 6. On 17 September 1997 she instituted p...
1
dev
001-110313
ENG
AUT
ADMISSIBILITY
2,012
MICHAJLOV v. AUSTRIA
4
Inadmissible
Anatoly Kovler;Elisabeth Steiner;Julia Laffranque;Khanlar Hajiyev;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska;Peer Lorenzen
1. The applicant, Mr Valentin Michajlov, is an Austrian national who was born in 1952 and lives in Krems. He is represented before the Court by Mr H. Blum, a lawyer practising in Linz. The Austrian Government (“the Government”) are represented by their Agent, Ambassador H. Tichy, Head of the International Law Departmen...
0
dev
001-113901
ENG
POL
ADMISSIBILITY
2,012
PIKIELNY AND OTHERS v. POLAND
4
Inadmissible
David Thór Björgvinsson;George Nicolaou;Lech Garlicki;Ledi Bianku;Nebojša Vučinić;Päivi Hirvelä;Vincent A. De Gaetano
1. The application was lodged by five applicants – Henryk Pikielny (“the first applicant”), Simon Pikielny (“the second applicant”), Yael Star (“the third applicant”), Irit Fenton (“the fourth applicant”) and Ruth Leshem (“the fifth applicant”). The first applicant is a Brazilian national, the second, third and fifth a...
0
dev
001-104101
ENG
UKR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,011
OMELCHUK v. UKRAINE
4
Inadmissible
Angelika Nußberger;Elisabet Fura;Ganna Yudkivska;Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre;Mark Villiger
The applicant, Mr Oleksandr Borysovych Omelchuk, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1977 and lives in Kozyatyn. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr Y. Zaytsev. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. On 6 May 2004 the applicant p...
0
dev
001-115353
ENG
RUS
ADMISSIBILITY
2,012
KULEVSKIY v. RUSSIA
4
Inadmissible
Anatoly Kovler;Elisabeth Steiner;Erik Møse;Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre;Khanlar Hajiyev;Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos
1. The applicant, Mr Igor Anatolyevich Kulevskiy, is a Belarusian national, who was born in 1966 and lived in Gomel, Belarus. He is represented before the Court by Mr V.S. Korchevskiy, a lawyer practising in Tula, Russia. 2. The Russian Government (“the Government”) are represented by Mr G. Matyushkin, Representative o...
0
dev
001-71427
ENG
NLD
ADMISSIBILITY
2,005
RAMADAN & AHJREDINI v. THE NETHERLANDS
4
Inadmissible
null
The applicants, Mr Heyridin Ramadan and Mrs Sevdie Ramadan-Ahjedini, are husband and wife. They originate from what is now the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (“the FYR of Macedonia”) and are of ethnic Albanian origin. They were born in 1957 and 1966 respectively and live in Huizen. They introduced the applicatio...
0
dev
001-60762
ENG
ITA
CHAMBER
2,002
CASE OF TOSI v. ITALY
4
Violation of P1-1;Violation of Art. 6-1;Pecuniary damage - financial award
Christos Rozakis
8. The applicant was born in 1931 and lives in Milan. 9. The applicant is the owner of an apartment in Milan, which she had let to M.A.H. on 1 March 1987. 10. In a writ served on the tenant on 13 February 1991 the applicant informed the tenant that she intended to terminate the lease and summoned the tenant to appear b...
1
dev
001-103776
ENG
ALB
CHAMBER
2,011
CASE OF ELTARI v. ALBANIA
3
Preliminary objection joined to merits and dismissed (Article 35-1 - Exhaustion of domestic remedies);Remainder inadmissible;Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Civil proceedings;Enforcement proceedings;Article 6-1 - Access to court;Fair hearing);Violation of Article 13+6-1 - Right to an effecti...
Lech Garlicki;Ledi Bianku;Nebojša Vučinić;Nicolas Bratza;Päivi Hirvelä;Zdravka Kalaydjieva
6. The applicant was born in 1956 and lives in Tirana. 7. On 28 December 1994 the Vlora Commission on Property Restitution and Compensation (“the Commission”) recognised the applicant’s and other heirs’ inherited title to a number of plots of land, amongst which a plot of land measuring 10,500 sq. m. As the restitution...
1
dev
001-22974
ENG
GBR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,002
BLAND v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
4
Inadmissible
Gaukur Jörundsson;Nicolas Bratza
The applicant, John Bland, is a United Kingdom national, who was born on 12 April 1940 and lives in Cowling, North Yorkshire. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. The applicant applied to the Benefits Agency for a retirement pension, but was informed, by a letter dated 17 Ma...
0
dev
001-96577
ENG
POL
CHAMBER
2,010
CASE OF BAKOWSKA v. POLAND
3
Remainder inadmissible;No violation of Art. 6-1
Giovanni Bonello;Lech Garlicki;Ledi Bianku;Nebojša Vučinić;Nicolas Bratza;Päivi Hirvelä
5. The applicant was born in 1949 and lives in Słupsk. 6. On 5 November 2000 the applicant filed a claim for payment against a housing cooperative of which she was a member. By a judgment of 27 February 2001 the Słupsk Regional Court dismissed the claim. The judgment was upheld on 7 September 2001 by the Gdańsk Court o...
0
dev
001-23407
ENG
UKR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,002
GAYDUK AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE
1
Inadmissible
null
The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. All the applicants are Ukrainian nationals and residents who opened savings accounts with the Ukraine Savings Bank, which until 1992 was an integral part of the USSR Savings Bank. With the exception of the cases expressly referred to belo...
0
dev
001-69294
ENG
HRV
ADMISSIBILITY
2,005
BIJELIC v. CROATIA
4
Inadmissible
Christos Rozakis
The applicants, Mr Dragoljub Bijelić and Ms Barbara Bijelić, are Croatian citizens, who were born in 1933 and 1942 espectively and live in Karlovac. They are represented before the Court by Mr N. Mamula, a lawyer practising in Karlovac. The respondent Government are represented by their Agents, Ms L. Lukina-Karajković ...
0
dev
001-23373
ENG
DEU
ADMISSIBILITY
2,001
LENZ v. GERMANY
1
Inadmissible
null
The applicant, Mr Helmut Lenz, is a German national, born in 1928 and living in Berlin. He was represented before the Court by Mr K.H. Christoph, of the Berlin Bar. The facts of the case, as presented by the parties, can be summarised as follows. Between 1 September 1967 and 31 August 1990 the applicant worked as a rad...
0
dev
001-4919
ENG
GBR
ADMISSIBILITY
1,999
FOX v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
4
Inadmissible
Nicolas Bratza
The applicant is an Irish citizen. At the time of lodging his application he was detained in H.M. Prison The Maze, Northern Ireland. He is represented before the Court by Mr P.J. McGrory, a lawyer practising in Belfast. A. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. On 23 May 1994,...
0
dev
001-87794
ENG
POL
ADMISSIBILITY
2,008
BORENSTEIN AND OTHERS v. POLAND
4
Inadmissible
David Thór Björgvinsson;Giovanni Bonello;Lech Garlicki;Ledi Bianku;Mihai Poalelungi;Nicolas Bratza
The applicants are: Ms Sara Borenstein, born in 1914, living in Israel, and Mr George Shrier, born in 1953, Ms Sabina Weinreb, born in 1928 and Ms Anne Leichtman, born in 1954, all three living in the United States of America. They were represented before the Court by Ms B. Krzesak, a lawyer practising in Bielsko-Biała...
0
dev
001-91418
ENG
AUT
CHAMBER
2,009
CASE OF VEREIN DER FREUNDE DER CHRISTENGEMEINSCHAFT AND OTHERS v. AUSTRIA
4
No violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial;No violation of Article 13 - Right to an effective remedy
Anatoly Kovler;Christos Rozakis;Dean Spielmann;Elisabeth Steiner;Khanlar Hajiyev;Sverre Erik Jebens
6. The first applicant is a religious community established in Austria on 11 July 1998, and the four other applicants are members of it. The second applicant is the chair of the Vienna branch of the first applicant, and the fifth applicant is its deputy chair and is a minister in Vienna. The third and fourth applicants...
0
dev
001-105622
ENG
TUR
COMMITTEE
2,011
CASE OF KORKMAZ v. TURKEY
4
Violation of Art. 6-1;Violation of P1-1
David Thór Björgvinsson;Giorgio Malinverni;Guido Raimondi
3. The applicant was born in 1946 and lives in Istanbul. 4. On an unspecified date in the late 1980s the General Directorate of National Roads and Highways (Devlet Karayolları Genel Müdürlüğü) (“the General Directorate”) decided to partially expropriate the applicant’s land located in the Küçükçekmece district of Istan...
1
dev
001-58105
ENG
FRA
CHAMBER
1,997
CASE OF PIERRE-BLOCH v. FRANCE
2
Not necessary to examine Art. 14
C. Russo;John Freeland
8. In the general election of 21 and 28 March 1993 Mr Jean-Pierre Pierre-Bloch stood as a candidate for the Union for French Democracy (Union pour la démocratie française – UDF) in the 19th administrative district of Paris and was elected as a member of the National Assembly. 9. On 27 May 1993 the applicant submitted h...
0
dev
001-22687
ENG
GBR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,002
TAMOSIUS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
1
Inadmissible
Nicolas Bratza
The applicant, Mr Alwin Tamosius, is a United States national, born in 1951 and living in the United Kingdom. He is represented before the Court by Mr Lockley, a lawyer practising in the Sheffield. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. The applicant is a lawyer and partner of...
0
dev
001-100036
ENG
LTU
CHAMBER
2,010
CASE OF BALČIŪNAS v. LITHUANIA
4
Violation of Art. 5-3;No violation of Art. 6-1;No violation of Art. 6-3-d
Alvina Gyulumyan;Corneliu Bîrsan;Egbert Myjer;Elisabet Fura;Ineta Ziemele;John Hedigan;Josep Casadevall
7. The applicant was born in 1977 and lives in Šiauliai. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. 8. On 9 November 1998 the applicant was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery. While remanded in custody the applicant was held in Šiauliai Remand Prison, Šiauliai Police Detention...
1
dev
001-89813
ENG
LTU
CHAMBER
2,008
CASE OF JUCIUS AND JUCIUVIENĖ v. LITHUANIA
3
Violation of Art. 8;Remainder inadmissible;Non-pecuniary damage - award
Françoise Tulkens;Ireneu Cabral Barreto;Nona Tsotsoria;Vladimiro Zagrebelsky
5. The first applicant is a Lithuanian national who was born in 1966. The second applicant, his wife, is a Lithuanian national who was born in 1967. They live together in Mažeikiai and have two children. 6. In April 1999 the first applicant’s sister, SJ, and her partner, DŠ (senior), died, and the applicants were appoi...
1
dev
001-103881
ENG
RUS
COMMITTEE
2,011
CASE OF TITARENKO v. RUSSIA
4
No violation of Art. 6-1
Anatoly Kovler;Christos Rozakis;George Nicolaou
4. The applicants were born in 1954 and live in Moscow. 5. On 5 October 2001 the applicants sued the Nefron association seeking conclusion of employment contracts. 6. The Nagatinskiy District Court of Moscow (“the District Court”) scheduled the first hearing for 21 February 2002. Between 21 February 2002 and 17 June 20...
0
dev
001-69354
ENG
RUS
CHAMBER
2,005
CASE OF OOO RUSATOMMET v. RUSSIA
4
Violation of Art. 6-1;Violation of P1-1;Pecuniary damage - financial award;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award
null
7. The applicant company is a debt collector. In July 1999, it bought a defaulted State bond and sued the Government for the debt. After several years of litigation, on 10 April 2002 the Moscow City Commercial Court ordered the Government to pay the applicant company 100,000 American dollars (“USD”). 8. On 5 August 200...
1
dev
001-72345
ENG
POL
ADMISSIBILITY
2,006
WIACEK v. POLAND
4
Inadmissible
Nicolas Bratza
The applicant, Mr Jan Wiącek, is a Polish national who was born in 1950 and lives in Nowa Słupia, Poland. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. The applicant was a party to civil proceedings concerning a claim for division of marital co-ownership. On 6 September 2000 a hearin...
0
dev
001-139293
ENG
GBR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,013
A.L.F. v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
4
Inadmissible
George Nicolaou;Ineta Ziemele;Ledi Bianku;Päivi Hirvelä;Paul Mahoney;Vincent A. De Gaetano
1. The applicant, A.L.F., is a British national, who was born in 1963 and lives in Birmingham. 2. 3. On 18 October 2004 the applicant was convicted by a jury of four offences of indecent assault and two offences of rape involving oral and anal sex with his nephew. He was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. Permissi...
0
dev
001-105139
ENG
RUS
CHAMBER
2,011
CASE OF PETR SEVASTYANOV v. RUSSIA
4
Violation of Art. 6-1
Anatoly Kovler;Elisabeth Steiner;George Nicolaou;Khanlar Hajiyev;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska;Peer Lorenzen
6. The applicant was born in 1973 and lives in Moscow. 7. Between July and September 2000 the Nikulinskiy District Court of Moscow (“the Nikulinskiy District Court”), composed of one professional judge, Mr Bobkov, and two lay judges, Ms Matuzova and Mr Rubtsov, examined the charges brought against the applicant in conn...
1
dev
001-110436
ENG
POL
COMMITTEE
2,012
CASE OF SIMONOV v. POLAND
4
No violation of Article 5 - Right to liberty and security (Article 5-3 - Reasonableness of pre-trial detention)
George Nicolaou;Ledi Bianku;Vincent A. De Gaetano
5. The applicant was born in 1958 and currently lives in Łódź. 6. On 14 February 2007 the applicant was arrested on suspicion of several counts of fraud and incitement to murder committed in an organised criminal group. 7. On 16 February 2007 the Katowice District Court remanded him in custody, relying on the reasonabl...
0
dev
001-71120
ENG
RUS
CHAMBER
2,005
CASE OF IVANNIKOVA v. RUSSIA
4
Violation of Art. 6-1;Violation of P1-1;Not necessary to examine Art. 13;Pecuniary damage - financial award;Non-pecuniary damage - finding of violation sufficient;Costs and expenses partial award - domestic and convention proceedings
Christos Rozakis
4. The applicant was born in 1965 and lives in the Voronezh Region. 5. The applicant receives welfare payments for her child. In 1999 she brought civil proceedings against a local welfare authority, claiming arrears in those payments for 1998 – 1999. 6. On 17 December 1999 the Novousmanskiy District Court of the Vorone...
1
dev
001-57603
ENG
NLD
CHAMBER
1,985
CASE OF X AND Y v. THE NETHERLANDS
2
Violation of Art. 8;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award
C. Russo
7. Mr. X and his daughter Y were born in 1929 and on 13 December 1961 respectively. The daughter, who is mentally handicapped, had been living since 1970 in a privately-run home for mentally handicapped children. 8. During the night of 14 to 15 December 1977, Miss Y was woken up by a certain Mr. B, the son-in-law of th...
1
dev
001-68754
ENG
MLT
CHAMBER
2,005
CASE OF CALLEJA v. MALTA
3
Violation of Art. 5-3;Violation of Art. 6-1;Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award;Costs and expenses award - domestic proceedings;Costs and expenses partial award - Convention proceedings
Christos Rozakis
7. The applicant was born in 1961 and is currently detained in Corradino Prison (Malta). 8. In November 1995 the applicant was arrested and charged with trafficking in dangerous drugs. On 15 May 1996, while he was in pre-trial detention, a fresh charge of complicity in attempted wilful homicide was brought against him....
1
dev
001-111215
ENG
LTU
CHAMBER
2,012
CASE OF ESERTAS v. LITHUANIA
3
Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Civil proceedings;Article 6-1 - Fair hearing);Pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage - award
András Sajó;Françoise Tulkens;Helen Keller;Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre;Paulo Pinto De Albuquerque
5. The applicant was born in 1978 and lives in Kaunas. 6. The applicant owned a flat together with another person, I.B. On 15 May 2001 the applicant and I.B. disconnected the flat from the central heating system provided by the company “Litesko Ltd.” (hereinafter – Litesko), and signed a contract with an alternative he...
1
dev
001-86180
ENG
GBR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,008
DURHAM v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
4
Inadmissible
Giovanni Bonello;Ján Šikuta;Lech Garlicki;Ledi Bianku;Nicolas Bratza;Päivi Hirvelä
The applicant, Mr William Durham, is a British national who was born in 1934 and lives in London. The United Kingdom Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr D. Walton of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follow...
0
dev
001-84572
ENG
POL
CHAMBER
2,008
CASE OF RYGALSKI v. POLAND
4
Violation of Art. 6-1
Giovanni Bonello;Ján Šikuta;Josep Casadevall;Lech Garlicki;Nicolas Bratza;Päivi Hirvelä;Stanislav Pavlovschi
4. The applicant was born in 1931 and lives in Częstochowa. 5. On 29 July 1999 the applicant lodged a complaint with the City Council. He claimed that his neighbour, who lived upstairs, had carried out illegal construction work as a result of which the walls of the applicant's flat had begun to crack. 6. On 16 November...
1
dev
001-78606
ENG
TUR
CHAMBER
2,006
CASE OF YAVUZ AND OSMAN v. TURKEY
4
Preliminary objection partially allowed;Violation of Art. 6-1
null
4. The applicants were born in 1955 and 1965 respectively. The first applicant lives in Batman and the second applicant is currently detained in the Gaziantep Prison. 5. On 13 March 1993 the applicants were taken into custody by policemen from the Anti-Terrorism Branch of the Batman Security Directorate on suspicion of...
1
dev
001-61636
ENG
TUR
CHAMBER
2,004
CASE OF İPEK v. TURKEY
1
Violation of Art. 2 on account of presumed deaths;Violation of Art. 2 on account of lack of effective investigation;Violation of Art. 3;Violation of Art. 5;Violation of P1-1;Violation of Art. 13;No violation of Art. 14;No violation of Art. 18;Failure to fulfil obligations under Art. 38-1-a;Pecuniary damage - financial ...
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10. The applicant was born in 1942 and is at present living in Diyarbakır, Turkey. At the time of the events giving rise to his application, the applicant was living in the Çaylarbaşı (Dahlezeri in Kurdish) hamlet attached to Türeli village in the Lice district of the province of Diyarbakır. The application concerns th...
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dev
001-68423
ENG
GBR
CHAMBER
2,005
CASE OF LLOYD AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
3
Violation of Article 5 - Right to liberty and security (Article 5-1 - Lawful arrest or detention;Article 5-1-b - Secure fulfilment of obligation prescribed by law);No violation of Article 5 - Right to liberty and security (Article 5-1 - Lawful arrest or detention;Article 5-1-b - Secure fulfilment of obligation prescrib...
Josep Casadevall;Nicolas Bratza;Simon Brown
9. Each applicant failed to pay sums due in respect of either local taxes (community charge, council tax or non-domestic rates) or court-imposed fines. In respect of the failure to pay local taxes, the magistrates’ court had in each case determined that the applicant was liable to pay (issuing a “liability order”); in ...
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dev
001-77181
ENG
UKR
ADMISSIBILITY
2,006
SHERSTYUK v. UKRAINE
4
Inadmissible
Peer Lorenzen
The applicant, Ms Olga Ivanovna Sherstyuk, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1965 and lives in the town of Popasnaya of the Lugansk region. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr Y. Zaytsev, of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. The facts of the case, as submitted by the ...
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dev
001-90161
ENG
MKD
ADMISSIBILITY
2,008
BAJRAKTAROV v. "THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA"
4
Inadmissible
Karel Jungwiert;Mark Villiger;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska;Peer Lorenzen;Rait Maruste;Renate Jaeger;Volodymyr Butkevych
The applicant, Mr Risto Bajraktarov, is a Macedonian national who was born in 1937 and lives in Štip. He was represented before the Court by Mr T. Torov, a lawyer practising in Štip. The Macedonian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mrs R. Lazareska Gerovska. The facts of the case, as submit...
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dev
001-96953
ENG
TUR
CHAMBER
2,010
CASE OF ALICAN v. TURKEY
4
Violation of Art. 6-1
Françoise Tulkens;Ireneu Cabral Barreto;Nona Tsotsoria;Vladimiro Zagrebelsky
4. The applicants were born in 1983, 1946 and 1936 respectively. The first and the third applicant live in Diyarbakır and the second applicant resides in Manisa. The application concerns the wounding of the first applicant, who was eleven years old at the time, and the death of the second and third applicants' sons, Çe...
1
dev
001-23341
ENG
CZE
ADMISSIBILITY
2,002
ZEHNALOVÁ AND ZEHNAL v. THE CZECH REPUBLIC
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Inadmissible
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The applicants, Mrs Jitka Zehnalová and her husband, Mr Otto Zehnal, are Czech nationals who were born in 1962 and 1958 respectively and live in Přerov. They were represented before the Court by Mr P. Šturma, of the Prague Bar. At the hearing on 19 February 2002 the applicants’ representative was assisted by Mr J. Ondr...
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dev
001-79602
ENG
TUR
CHAMBER
2,007
CASE OF AKPINAR AND ALTUN v. TURKEY
2
No violation of Art. 2 (substantive aspect);Violation of Art. 2 (procedural aspect);No violation of Art. 3;Violation of Art. 3;Not necessary to examine Art. 3 (procedural aspect);Pecuniary damage - claim dismissed;Non-pecuniary damage - financial award;Costs and expenses award - Convention proceedings
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4. The applicants were born in 1957 and 1949 and live in Aydın (Turkey) and Australia respectively. The application concerns the killing of the first applicant's brother, Seyit Külekçi, and the second applicant's son, Doğan Altun, the alleged mutilation of their corpses by security forces and the alleged failure to con...
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