CASE OF JANAKIESKI v. NORTH MACEDONIA – The difficulties involved in dealing with the applicant’s numerous appeals, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, do not justify failure to comply with the “speediness” requirement set out in Article 5 § 4 of the Convention

The present case concerns the alleged unlawfulness and arbitrariness of the applicant’s deprivation of liberty, lack of relevant and sufficient reasons for his deprivation of liberty and lack of a speedy review of his deprivation of liberty, in breach of…

CASE OF CANGI AND OTHERS v. TÜRKIYE – 48173/18. There had been a violation of the applicants’ rights in that they had not been familiarised with all the evidence submitted to the expert

The case concerns the applicants’ complaint under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention that in the administrative proceedings they had lodged, they had not been allowed to participate effectively in the court-appointed expert examination procedure. The European Court of…

CASE OF TOIVANEN v. FINLAND – 46131/19. The case concerns proceedings in which the applicant’s licence to plead cases before the Finnish courts was revoked

The case concerns proceedings in which the applicant’s licence to plead cases before the Finnish courts was revoked. The applicant, invoking Article 6 of the Convention, complained of bias and procedural unfairness in that his case had been allegedly unlawfully transferred…

Toivanen v. Finland

Legal summary November 2023 Toivanen v. Finland – 46131/19 Judgment 9.11.2023 [Section I] Article 6 Civil proceedings Article 6-1 Fair hearing Impartial tribunal Decision by Court of Appeal’s Acting Chief Justice to transfer examination of applicant’s appeal against revocation of…

CASE OF BAKHMATOV AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA – 14839/21 and 9 others. The applicants complained of the disproportionate measures taken against them as organisers or participants of public assemblies

The applicants complained principally of disproportionate measures taken against them as organisers or participants of public assemblies, namely their arrest in relation to the dispersal of these assemblies and their conviction for administrative offences. They relied, expressly or in substance,…

CASE OF SARANCHUK AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA – 15326/19 and 24 others. The applicants complained of the disproportionate measures taken against them as organisers or participants of public assemblies

The applicants complained principally of disproportionate measures taken against them as organisers or participants of public assemblies, namely their arrest in relation to the dispersal of these assemblies and their conviction for administrative offences. They relied, expressly or in substance,…