The close professional relationship between judges of the Supreme Court of Cassation and one of the parties constituted a lack of objective impartiality. Breach of the right to due process
JUDGMENT Syndicat National des Journalistes and others v. France 14.12.2023 (app. no. 41236/18) see here SUMMARY The case concerned an alleged violation of the right to a fair hearing by an impartial court, as a result of the involvement of three Court of Cassation judges – who, in the applicants’ submission, had ties with the […]