Indeed, it had taken them more than four months just to contact the Embassy.

The State was responsible for his death, as the Government had failed to provide any plausible explanation of what had happened to him following his detention and disappearance more than three years previously

However, the applicant only lodged his application with the Court on 19   October 2004, that is more than six months from the enforcement date.

‘One of the companies used in such operations was [T.] ... through which, after complicated deals, more than twenty million euros of shareholders’ funds were allegedly laundered and at least three million

Furthermore, having regard to the numerous means of communication now available to potential applicants (post, fax, electronic communication, Internet, and so on), the six-month time-limit was, now more

He also complained that the aforementioned circumstances, as well as the long-lasting (for more than seven months) uncertainty about his son K.’s fate and the prolonged (for more than three months) failure

The domestic courts found that the provisions of the 2011 Penal Code were more lenient for the applicant than those of the 1997 Penal Code, which was in force at the time of commission, and in particular

Moreover, an internal passport was required for more crucial needs, such as finding employment or receiving medical care (as established in Smirnova v.

More precisely:   -     was there a lawful basis for the deprivation of the applicant’s liberty within this period of time?

More precisely, they submitted that the applicant had applied to the Court belatedly as the continuous situation complained of had ceased on 14 September 2015, when he was transferred to another prison

  Complaints   Relying on Article 5 §§ 1 and 4 (right to liberty and security) of the European Convention on Human Rights, the applicant complained about the length of her detention (more than

Article   6(1) – The Court noted that the parties disagreed as to whether at the relevant time the status of lay judges in question had been governed by the USSR Judiciary Act of 1981 or by the more

With the passage of time, the courts’ focus had shifted more and more from the unproven allegations of sexual abuse to the possibility of the children being further traumatised in the event of their return

The court stressed that those limitations were aimed at securing safety at the railways, and that railway workers were subjected to more strict discipline rules than the workers of other sectors of industry

belonging to the applicants in the name of the Treasury for nature-conservation purposes without payment of compensation: violation   Facts : The applicants claimed that a piece of land measuring more

trajectory, he could not have possibly shot himself inside the lorry cabin); -           the lorry was inspected for the first time on 30 March 2018 (that is, more

The applicants successfully challenged the designation of their properties as public area, but no administrative action was taken for more than 20 years either to remove the encumbrance or to carry out

disadvantage, having regard to the amounts due to them (ranging from 200 to over 13,700 euros) in the “Pinto” proceedings and the delays in question (between 9 and 49   months, and 19   months or more

Belgium - 43418/09 Judgment 10.1.2013 [Section V] Article 3 Degrading treatment Structural problems resulting in prisoner suffering from mental disorders being held for more than fifteen years in prison

This sentence is discretionary to the extent that the court may opt for a more lenient sentence, and decide to imprison him for a term of years.