CEDH · CASELAW;RESOLUTIONS;EXECUTION;ENG — 15 mai 1992

.sDD6737AE { font-size:11pt } .s211D6B00 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; line-height:normal; widows:0; orphans:0; font-size:8.5pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial }       The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 54 (art. 54) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention"),        Having regard to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of the Observer and the Guardian against the United Kingdom delivered on 26 November 1991 and transmitted the same day to the Committee of Ministers;        Recalling that the case originated in an application against the United Kingdom lodged with the European Commission of Human Rights on 27 January 1988 under Article 25 (art. 25) of the Convention by two companies incorporated in England, The Observer Ltd and Guardian Newspapers Ltd, and five British citizens, Mr Donald Trelford, Mr David Leigh, Mr Paul Lashmar, Mr Peter Preston and Mr Richard Norton-Taylor who complained that interlocutory injunctions, in force from July 1986 to October 1988, restrained them from publishing details of unauthorised memoirs alleging unlawful conduct by the security service and information obtained from their author, a former employee of the service;        Recalling that the case was brought before the Court by the Commission on 12 October 1990 and by the Government of the United Kingdom on 23 November 1990;        Whereas in its judgment of 26 November 1991 the Court:   -     held by fourteen votes to ten that there had been no      violation of Article 10 (art. 10) of the Convention      during the period from 11 July 1986 to 30 July 1987;   -     held unanimously that there had been a violation of      Article 10 (art. 10) during the period from      30 July 1987 to 13 October 1988;   -     held unanimously that there had been no violation of      Article 13 or of Article 14 taken in conjunction with      Article 10 (art. 13+10, art. 14+10);   -     held unanimously that the United Kingdom was to pay,      within three months, to the applicants jointly the sum      of 100 000 pounds sterling, together with any      value-added tax that may be chargeable, for costs and      expenses;   -     dismissed unanimously the remainder of the claim for      just satisfaction;        Having regard to the Rules adopted by the Committee of Ministers concerning the application of Article 54 (art. 54) of the Convention;        Having invited the Government of the United Kingdom to inform it of the measures which had been taken in consequence of the judgment of 26 November 1991, having regard to its obligation under Article 53 (art. 53) of the Convention to abide by it;        Having satisfied itself that the Government of the United Kingdom has paid the applicants on 18 December 1991 the sum provided for in the judgment of 26 November 1991,        Declares that it has exercised its functions under Article 54 (art. 54) of the Convention in this case.