Communicated on 22 January 2019<\/p>\n
FIRST SECTION<\/p>\n
Application no. 47453\/17
\nDavor GJURA\u0160IN
\nagainst Croatia
\nlodged on 30 June 2017<\/p>\n
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE<\/p>\n
The application concerns the alleged lack of impartiality of the Supreme Court in three sets of proceedings which ended in 2010 and 2014 respectively where that court dismissed the applicant\u2019s appeals against three decisions of the Croatian Bar Association (CBA) whereby he had been temporarily suspended from the Bar. Specifically, by a judgment of 25 February 2010 the Supreme Court dismissed the applicant\u2019s appeal against the CBA\u2019s Executive Board\u2019s decision of 17 October 2009. By two judgments adopted on 11 December 2014 that court dismissed the applicant\u2019s appeals against the two decisions of the CBA\u2019s Executive Board of 14 December 2013. In each of the three cases the Supreme Court sat in a panel composed of the same three judges and two attorneys (members of the CBA), as provided in the Attorney\u2019s Act (Zakon o odvjetni\u0161tvu). In May 2017 the applicant learned that two judges who had sat in the Supreme Court\u2019s panel which had dismissed his appeals had been receiving money from the CBA at the relevant time.<\/p>\n
QUESTION tO THE PARTIES<\/p>\n
Was the Supreme Court, which decided the applicant\u2019s appeals against the decisions of the Croatian Bar Association, impartial as required by Article 6 \u00a7 1 of the Convention?<\/p>\n