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

regard to the criminal complaint lodged by the applicant, who had plausibly alleged that the law on euthanasia had not been complied with in the present case, the Belgian authorities had been under an obligation

    In a number of cases, Article 3 of the Convention was found 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 should be examined from the perspective of the State’s obligation to conduct an effective investigation under the procedural limb of Article

    The obligation to conduct an effective investigation is an obligation not of result but of means: the authorities must take the reasonable measures available to them to secure evidence concerning

correctement analysé ; aucune altération grossière de l’offre au titre de la description des procédures courantes et exceptionnelles n’est démontrée, ni au titre de l’absence de numéro d’astreinte ou des obligations

and effective investigation capable of leading to the identification and punishment of those responsible and encompassing effective access for the family to the investigation (this went beyond the obligation

    The Government argued that the investigation conducted by the domestic authorities into the applicant’s allegations of ill-treatment had been thorough and effective. 29.

This decision is without prejudice to the Government’s continuing obligation to conduct an investigation in compliance with the requirements of the Convention . B.

  20855/15, ECHR 15 March 2016), the applicants complained under Article   2 of the Convention that there had been a breach of the procedural obligation to conduct an “effective official investigation

    The applicant submitted that the domestic authorities had had a positive obligation to conduct an effective investigation in order to elucidate the circumstances surrounding the accident

    The State’s obligation to conduct an effective investigation 43.

    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

    As regards the alleged failures of the gynaecologist, the Court notes that the obligation to conduct a thorough, effective and independent inquiry into allegations of rape is an obligation

    The Court refers to the principles established in its case-law regarding   the obligation to conduct an effective investigation of allegations of ill-treatment by State agents (see Bouyid

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

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

However, the applicant’s complaint concerns the procedural obligation to conduct an effective investigation.

The authorities were therefore under an obligation to conduct an effective investigation fulfilling the requirements of this provision (see McGlinchey and Others v. the United Kingdom , no. 50390/99, §