Judge participated in the examination of an appeal on points of law, despite having served as head of the Attorney General’s Office during the period when his subordinate prosecutors brought the appeal on points of law in question. Breach of objective impartiality
JUDGMENT Ugulava v. Georgia (no. 2) 01.02.2024 (app. no. 22431/20) see here SUMMARY In December 2013, the applicant, a politician, who at the time was acting as Mayor of Tbilisi, was charged with aggravated embezzlement. In January 2019, two prosecutors of the General Prosecutor’s Office appealed against the appellate decision to the Supreme Court. The […]