CEDH · PRESS;FORTHCOMINGJUDGMENTS;ENG — 17 juin 2008

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s7ED160F0 { text-decoration:none } .s653E6C45 { font-family:Arial; font-size:6.67pt; vertical-align:super; color:#0069d6 } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .sF6A12959 { width:33%; height:1px; text-align:left } .s2EB42ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   449 17.6.2008   Press release issued by the Registrar   FORTHCOMING GRAND CHAMBER JUDGMENT   23 June 2008   The European Court of Human Rights will be holding a public hearing in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg, on Monday 23 June 2008 at 9.30 a.m. (local time) to deliver a Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Maslov v. Austria (application no. 1638/03).   The press release and the text of the judgment will be available after the hearing on the Court’s Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).     Maslov v. Austria (application no. 1638/03) The applicant, Juri Maslov, is a Bulgarian national who was born in 1984 and who, at the age of six, lawfully entered Austria with his parents and two siblings. He went to school in Austria and speaks German. He currently lives in Bulgaria.   The application concerned the 10-year residence prohibition against Mr Maslov, issued by the Vienna Federal Police Authority, relying on Section 36 §   1 of the 1997 Aliens Act. The prohibition was made following Mr Maslov’s convictions by the Vienna Juvenile Court in September 1999 and then in May 2000. The first conviction was, in particular, for burglary, extortion and assault which resulted in an 18-month prison sentence, 13 months of which were suspended on probation. Mr Maslov was also instructed to start drug therapy. The second conviction was for a series of burglaries resulting in 15   months’ imprisonment. The Juvenile Court considered Mr Maslov’s rapid relapse into crime after his first conviction and his failure to undergo drug withdrawal treatment as aggravating circumstances. That court also noted that, though still living with his parents, he had completely eluded their educational influence, had repeatedly been absent from home and had dropped out of school. Mr Maslov was released from prison in May 2002 and, ultimately, deported to Bulgaria on 22   December 2003.   Mr Maslov relies on Article   8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights.   In a judgment of 22   March 2007, the Court held, by four votes to three, that there had been a violation of Article   8 of the Convention.   On 20 June 2007, the Government requested that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber under Article   43 [1] (referral to the Grand Chamber) and on 24   September 2007 the panel of the Grand Chamber accepted that request. A hearing took place in public in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg, on 6   February 2008.   *** 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.