The applicant lodged an appeal in which he complained, inter alia , that he did not have fair proceedings because his case was decided upon the opinion of the biased expert witness because she worked for

By a judgment which became final on 7 April 2011 the domestic courts dismissed her action as statute-barred because the three-year statutory limitation period had elapsed.

Even though he maintained that he had been unable to succeed to the tenancy because he and A.Z. had been of the same sex, the domestic courts ultimately dismissed the applicant’s claim not because of his

He was taken to a hospital neurology ward, but the doctors refused to carry out the recommended tomography because the applicant was unable to pay for it.

Before the courts the applicant stated that the decree of 2009 was inapplicable to his case because it was not in force when the decision of 24 June 2005 was taken.

Law – Article 6 § 1: The Court noted at the outset that the witness statements and the weight given to them had had a decisive impact on the determination of the case because, apart from them, there was

On 24 February 2016 the Court of Appeal suspended the proceedings because the applicant had not paid the court fee and granted the applicant a deadline for payment.

The Court held that there had been unjustified pre-trial detention of the applicant from 10/08/2006 at the latest until his release on bail on 30/11/2006 because the underlying reasons were not supported

In the Supreme Court’s view, this was so especially because the Convention and its Protocols left the system of appeal to be determined by the States.

Relying on Article 6 of the Convention the applicants complained that the national courts had violated their right to a fair hearing because in dismissing their tort law action, the courts had omitted

BECARY PERE ET FILS devant le juge des référés du tribunal judiciaire de Bordeaux.

It was impossible for the applicant to represent himself because defamation proceedings are very complex for a layman, who moreover has linguistic difficulties.

The court held that it could not conclude that because of A.P.’s actions some evidence or a possibility to establish the guilty persons had been lost.

She applied for regularisation of her residence status, partly because she and her husband, a Congolese national, had separated, and partly because the couple’s children, who were legal residents, lived

On 6   September 2012 his two brothers were allegedly arrested on charges of terrorism purportedly because of their belonging to Sunny Islam.

II against France     Introductory case summary   This case concerns a breach to the principle of equality of arms, during a trial before a Cour d'assises because his defence counsel was

On 31 March and 6 April 2009 the police informed the local Interior Department that the applicant could not be administratively removed to Georgia because he did not have identity documents.

  On 11 February 1993, the hearing was postponed to 6 May 1993 because the first applicant could not attend.

Furthermore, because of the refusal of residential care centres and psychiatric hospitals to admit him, he has remained in detention without any realistic prospect of treatment in an outside institution