JUDGMENT Kandarakis v. Greece 11.06.2020 (no. 48345/12, 48348/12 and 67463/12) see here SUMMARY Payment of legal remuneration and court costs. Right of access. Lawyers’ rights. Rejection, for lack of active legal standing, of the lawyers claim who represented their clients in a case of expropriation. The lawyers demanded that the debtor company deposit the awarded […]
JUDGMENT Koulias v. Cyprus 26.05.2020 (no. 48781/12) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s complaint that one of the Supreme Court judges in proceedings against him for defamation was not impartial as the judge’s son worked for the law firm whose founding partner represented the appellant in the case. The Court found in particular […]
JUDGMENT Litvinenko v. Russia 05.05.2020 (no. 84447/17) see here SUMMARY Seizure of property as part of a criminal investigation by the alleged abducted victim. Authorities seized the applicant’s property, which was allegedly the victim of an abduction from unknown criminals, in order to prevent the perpetrators from illegally disposing of her property. The applicant had […]
JUDGMENT Tête v. Frabce 26.03.2020 (no. 59636/16) see here SUMMARY In this case the applicant complained about his conviction for malicious falsehood on account of an open letter which he had written to the President of the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF), in which he accused the Olympique Lyonnais Group (“the OL Group”) and its […]
JUDGMENT Aslan Ismayilov v. Azerbaijan 12.03.2020 (no. 18498/15) see here SUMMARY Fair trial and reasoning of judicial decisions. Withdrawal of a lawyer license after disciplinary action by a court following a judge’s complaint. Failure of courts to respond to the applicant’s claims and unilateral evaluation of witness testimony against the lawyer and the complaining judge. […]
JUDGMENT Lobzhanidze and Peradze v. Georgia 27.02.2020 (no. 21447/11 and 35839/11) see here SUMMARY Evidence, Appointment of Attorney, Appeal and Fair Trial. The applicants were convicted of forgery for a virtual sale of real estate. In addition, the first applicant was charged with the offense of bribery of judicial officers for attempting to influence a […]
JUDGMENT Paixão Moreira Sá Fernandes v. Portugal 25.2.2020 (no. 78108/14) see here SUMMARY The case concerned the applicant’s conviction for recording a conversation with a businessman who was offering him money to ensure that his brother, a Lisbon City Councillor, would withdraw his opposition to a contract that the businessman wished to conclude with the […]
JUDGMENT Mehmet Zeki Çelebi v. Turkey 28.1.2020 (no. 27582/07) see here SUMMARY Fair trial and representation by a lawyer. The applicant was arrested on charges of involvement in terrorist organization, extortion and premeditated homicide. At the pretrial stage he requested legal representation but was not required by law and his apology was in the absence […]
JUDGMENT Kruglov and others v. Russia 30.01.2020 (no. 11264/04 and 15 applications) see here SUMMARY Investigations in law firms and homes. Protection of professional secrecy. Necessary institutional guarantees. The seizure of computers and hard drives violates the right to property. The applicants are lawyers. In order to gather evidence for a criminal investigation, a search […]
JUDGMENT Kırdök and others v. Turkey 03.12.2019 (no. 14704/12) see here SUMMARY In this case the applicants, who are lawyers, complained about the seizure of their electronic data by the judicial authorities for the purposes of criminal proceedings against another lawyer (Ü.S.), who had shared their office. The Court found, in particular, that the seizure […]
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