Russia was therefore under an obligation to conduct an effective investigation satisfying the requirements of Article 3.

He also requested the Public Prosecutor to collect the applicant’s clothes which had been in contact with the chemical liquid as evidence.

    The general principles concerning the State’s positive obligation to conduct an effective investigation under the procedural limb of Article 2 in the context of a traffic accident are described

    The Court has previously held that once the obligation to conduct an effective investigation is triggered, compliance with the procedural requirement of Article   2 of the Convention

The trial court had complied with its obligation to expeditiously conduct the proceedings.

The Court reiterates that the State cannot discharge itself from its procedural obligation under Article 3 by shifting the responsibility for the institution and conduct of criminal investigative procedures

For this reason, in addition to the obligation to conduct a domestic investigation into events occurring on their own territories, member States were also subject to a duty in cross-border trafficking

The officers proposed a further meeting with the applicant and her representative but left no contact details.

Regardless of the authorities’ conduct, the applicant could not be absolved of his own obligation to take at least basic steps to seek information from the prosecuting authorities regarding the progress

Did those police officers’ department conduct operative and other supporting activities in cases investigated by the investigating authority in question?

    The Court notes at the outset that the present case must be examined from the perspective of the State’s obligation to conduct an effective investigation under the procedural limb of Article

life) of the European Convention on Human Rights in respect of the deaths of five men killed by Turkish security forces; unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 2 concerning Turkey’s obligation

In a number of cases, Article 3 of the Convention has also been held to give rise to a positive obligation to conduct an official investigation (see Assenov and Others v.

    The Court notes at the outset that the present case falls to be examined from the perspective of the State’s obligation to conduct an effective investigation under the procedural limb of

  Article 13   In view of the fact that the Court had found that the domestic authorities had failed in their obligation to protect the life of the applicant’s relatives, the applicants were

    In determining whether, in the present case, the applicants raised an arguable claim of ill-treatment attaining the threshold of Article 3, triggering the State’s (procedural) obligation

    The Court notes at the outset that the present case falls to be examined from the perspective of the State’s obligation to conduct an effective investigation under the procedural limb of

In addition to this, the domestic courts must conduct a review on their own motion at least every thirty days in between hearings.

  This obligation was already abolished by an amendment published in the Official Gazette on 8 August 1997 (No.64/1997).