CEDH · PRESS;HEARINGS;ENG — 27 avril 2010

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ROMANIA   The European Court of Human Rights is holding a Chamber hearing today, Tuesday   27   April 2010, at 9.00 a.m ., on the admissibility and merits in the case of Farcaş   v.   Romania (application no. 32596/04).   The hearing will be broadcast from 2.30 p.m. on the Court’s Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).     The applicant, Mr Alois Farcas, is a Romanian national who was born in 1964 and lives in Piatra Neamţ. He has suffered from progressive muscular dystrophy, a hereditary musculoskeletal disease, since the age of ten.   From 1983 to 2004 he worked as an electrical repair man in a telecommunications workshop. In 2004 he was transferred to a new post which required him to carry out repair work at other sites, a task ill-suited to someone with serious difficulties walking because most of the institutions or firms he was sent to had no access for the disabled. On 30   April   2004 he had to accept a severance agreement.   He was prevented from participating in the proceedings to challenge that agreement (which subsequently became final) as, not able to climb stairs, he could not access the court’s building. Nor was he able to register as unemployed or go to the local authorities to challenge a decision not to assign him a nurse even though the doctors had recommended that he should have one.   Mr Farcas is completely dependent on his entourage in his everyday life – to do his shopping, for example – and he has to remain within a 600-metre radius of his house because of the height of the kerbs. His situation deteriorated in 2007, when his car was found unfit for the road and he could not afford the necessary repairs. The applicant feels cut off from society, unable to use public transport or access the city’s administrative buildings or cultural institutions, such as theatres, museums or libraries.   The applicant has lodged complaints under several provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, including Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life), Article   6   §   1 (right to a fair trial) and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination).   The application was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights in September 2004.   The case will be heard by a Chamber composed as follows:   Josep Casadevall (Andorra), President , Elisabet Fura (Sweden), Corneliu Bîrsan (Romania), Boštjan M. Zupančič (Slovenia), Alvina Gyulumyan (Armenia), Egbert Myjer (the Netherlands), Luis López Guerra (Spain), judges , Ann Power (Ireland), Ineta Ziemele (Latvia), substitute judges , and also Santiago Quesada , Section Registrar .   Representatives of the parties   Government:     Răzvan-Horaţiu Radu , Agent ,     Horia Rogoveanu , Ileanu Micu , Ileana   Popescu , Maria Monica   Stanciu and Anca Roxana Ilie , Advisers ;   Applicant :     Constantin Cojocariu , Counsel and Padraig Hughes , Adviser .   ***   After the hearing the Court will begin its deliberations, which will be held in private. Its ruling in the case will, however, be made at a later stage.   The press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions, judgments and further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ). To subscribe to the Court’s press releases: http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/RSS.aspx .   Press contacts [email protected] Stefano Piedimonte (telephone: + 33 (0)3 90 21 42 04) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone : + 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Kristina Pencheva-Malinowski (telephone : + 33 (0)3 88 41 35 70) Céline Menu-Lange (telephone : + 33 (0)3 90 21 58 77) Frédéric Dolt (telephone : + 33 (0)3 90 21 53 39) Nina Salomon (telephone: + 33 (0)3 90 21 49 79)   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.