CEDH · PRESS;HEARINGS;ENG — 11 juin 2008

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GREECE (No. 2)   The European Court of Human Rights is holding a Grand Chamber hearing today Wednesday 11 June 2008 at 9 a.m. , in the case of Gorou v. Greece (No. 2) (application no.   12686/03).   The hearing will be broadcast from 2.30 p.m. on the Court’s Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   The applicant   The applicant, Anthi Gorou, is a Greek national who was born in 1957 and lives in Brussels. She is a civil servant in the employ of the Ministry of Education. In 1998 she lodged a complaint and a civil claim against her hierarchical superior, alleging perjury and defamation.   Complaint   The applicant complains that insufficient reasons were given for the decision by means of which the public prosecutor rejected her application for leave to appeal on points of law in September 2002. In addition, she complains of the length of the proceedings. She relies on Article   6 §   1 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights.   Procedure   The application was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on 23   January 2003 and declared partly admissible on 14 February 2006.   In its judgment of 14   June 2007, the Court held by four votes to three that there had been no violation of Article   6 §   1 of the Convention as regards the allegation that the proceedings had been unfair, and unanimously that there had been a violation of Article   6 §   1 as regards the length of the proceedings, namely more than four years and three months at one level of jurisdiction.   On 14   September 2007 the applicant requested that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber under Article   43 [1] (referral to the Grand Chamber) and on 12   November 2007 the panel of the Grand Chamber accepted that request. Composition of the Court   The case will be heard by the Grand Chamber composed as follows:   Nicolas Bratza (British), President , Christos Rozakis (Greek), Josep Casadevall (Andorran), Volodymyr Butkevych (Ukrainian), Vladimiro Zagrebelsky (Italian), Alvina Gyulumyan (Armenian), Khanlar Hajiyev (Azerbaijani) Ljiljana Mijović (citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Renate Jaeger (German), David Thór Björgvinsson (Icelandic), Ineta Ziemele (Latvian), Mark Villiger (Swiss) [2] , Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre (Monegasque), Giorgio Malinverni (Swiss), András Sajó (Hungarian), Zdravka Kalaydjieva (Bulgarian), Işıl Karakaş (Turkish), judges , Dragoljub Popović (Serbian), Rait Maruste (Estonian), Ján Šikuta (Slovak), substitute judges , and also Vincent Berger , Jurisconsult .   Representatives of the parties   Government :   Konstantinos Georgiades , Counsel ,   Ioannis Bakopoulos , Adviser ;   Applicant :   Hippokratis Mylonas , Counsel .   Anthi Gorou will also attend the hearing. *** After the hearing the Court will begin its deliberations, which are held in private. Judgment will be delivered at a later date. [3]   Press contacts Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Paramy Chanthalangsy (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 54 91) Sania Ivedi (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 59 45) The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. [1] Under Article 43 of the European Convention on Human Rights, within three months from the date of a Chamber judgment, any party to the case may, in exceptional cases, request that the case be referred to the 17 ‑ member Grand Chamber of the Court. In that event, a panel of five judges considers whether the case raises a serious question affecting the interpretation or application of the Convention or its protocols, or a serious issue of general importance, in which case the Grand Chamber will deliver a final judgment. If no such question or issue arises, the panel will reject the request, at which point the judgment becomes final. Otherwise Chamber judgments become final on the expiry of the three-month period or earlier if the parties declare that they do not intend to make a request to refer. [2] Judge elected in respect of Liechtenstein. [3] This summary by the Registry does not bind the Court.