When the post office staff arrived for work in the morning, six of them had their hands cuffed or taped behind their backs, five were also blindfolded, and the Post Master had a knife held against his

As the Court is master of the characterisation to be given in law to the facts of the case, it does not consider itself bound by the characterisation given by the parties.

Dragoljub Popović,   Mark Villiger,   Giorgio Malinverni,   George Nicolaou,   András Sajó,   Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, judges,   Vitaliano Esposito, ad hoc judge, and Michael

Peter Duffy, Counsel, Michael Gardner, Solicitor, Peter Newell, Adviser and Nicholas Grief, Pupil Barrister.   9.

De Gaetano,   Angelika Nußberger, judges , and Michael O’Boyle, Deputy Registrar , Having deliberated in private on 13 April 2011 and 1 February 2012, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted

De Gaetano,   Angelika Nußberger,   Paul Mahoney,   Faris Vehabović,   Robert Spano, judges, and Michael O’Boyle, Deputy Registrar, Having deliberated in private on 11 December 2013

the Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a British national, Mr   Edward Michael

Kovler ,   Elisabeth Steiner ,   Lech Garlicki ,   Khanlar Hajiyev ,   Dean Spielmann ,   Ineta Ziemele ,   Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre,   Päivi Hirvelä, judges , and Michael

    The relevant parts of the report produced by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mr   Michel   Forst, following his visit to the Republic

    The Court, as master of the characterisation to be given in law to the facts of a case (see, for example, Söderman c. Sweden [GC], no. 5786/08, § 57, ECHR 2013, and Tarakhel v.