The Government considered that routine tasks could have been carried out by a more junior assistant. They   submitted that a more reasonable hourly rate would have been GBP   120 per hour.

However, the applicant lodged his application with the Court on   3   October 2002, i.e. more than six months later.

More specifically, in 190   cases the complainants’ actions had been allowed (in full or in part), and 152   final judicial decisions resulting from those proceedings had been enforced by the

On the other hand, the Court had also acknowledged that, generally speaking, albeit in different circumstances, words spoken by high-ranking State officials carried more weight (see for example Peša v.

on behalf of the Minister of Justice and standing to act in cases in which the Minister of Justice is called by a tribunal to submit a defence against a request for compensation for failure by one or more

In their applications to the European Court, both men complained, inter alia , that the State Court had retroactively applied to them a more stringent criminal law, the 2003 Criminal Code, than that which

In particular he submits that the period of more than eleven months which elapsed between the lodging of his appeal in cassation and the forwarding of the case-file to the Registry of the Supreme Court

The amendments operated to bring rates of rent up to EUR 185 per year where these were below this figure; however this increase did not apply to the applicants’ property, the rent of which was already more

be the more serious.

Such a considerable variation could not be justified by public-interest imperatives, especially as in départements where one or more cantons had a population of more than 40,000 the electoral boundaries

It would have been more expedient to obtain their statements by letters rogatory.

In July 2001 two more judges indicated that there were grounds for bias on their part.

The applicant, on the other hand, had a more stable personality and was considerably better apt to treat K. with empathy and loving understanding.

The following day, he has requested the disclosure of more documents than solely the taps. It is possible that with this he means the selected material.

The newly submitted medical statement confirmed Bashir’s heath issues but did not prove more than normal dependency. 11 .

She was usually kept together with no more than seven inmates. The design capacity of the cells had not been exceeded.

Shortly afterwards, six more inmates were placed in the second applicant’s already overcrowded 12 ‑ bed cell, increasing the total number of prisoners there to 35.

    The principle of the retroactive application of the more lenient penalty forms part of the constitutional traditions common to the Member States. 69.

  The Court considered that other, more lenient measures would not suffice.   30.

he simply bruised more easily.