Turkey (no. 32357/96, 11 April 2000), “expecting those who claim to be victims of torture to prove their allegations ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ places on them a burden that is as impossible to meet as it

The third applicant, Patrick Smirnov, is the first and second applicants’ child: he was born in Ireland in July 2002 and therefore holds an Irish passport.

provision conferring on the investigator in charge of the case unrestricted discretion to grant or refuse prison visits, without limiting the scope of the discretion and the manner of its exercise, does not meet

    The five applicants, Bridget McDermott, Elizabeth Bissett, Mr Edward and Mrs Patricia Kennedy as well as Christine Keegan, are Irish nationals who live in Dublin.

This permission, which was recorded in the official planning register (see paragraph 31 below), had been granted on 10 March 1977 by the Minister for Local Government to the then owner, Mr Patrick Thornton

    In addition, the Government submitted a witness statement dated 29   October 2007 by Warrant Officer Class 2 Kerry Patrick Madison, who had responsibility for the management of the AP3

Commission of Human Rights (“the Commission”) under former Article 25 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by an Irish national, Mr Gerard Patrick

/16) against the Kingdom of Belgium lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Belgian national, Mr Patrick

Sir Patrick Elias, delivering the main judgment, rejected the submission that there were obvious and significant differences which marked out the cohort of lone parents with children under the age of two

Furthermore, since I.P. had been tapping, in an unlawful manner, the mobile telephone conversations of A.Kh, he knew about the latter’s plan to meet up with his friends, Z.V. and B.P., on the morning of

A forensic chemical examination report no. 443/sq produced by the Ministry of the Interior (“the second MI report”) found particles of grey cotton fibre on the applicant’s jacket that by their colour,

He had then left the room to meet an officer to whom he was supposed to hand over a package.

F., no particles coming from firing residue were found.

N.G. had offered to meet V. Muradyan. At around 9 p.m. they had gone to the contractual servicemen’s office, which had been empty at the time. A.K. had then invited V.