Hudoc Judgment (Merits and just satisfaction) Violation of Art. 6-1; Pecuniary damage – claim rejected; Non-pecuniary damage – finding of violation sufficient; Costs and expenses partial award – Convention proceedings
‘the holding of court hearings in public constitutes a fundamental principle enshrined in paragraph 1 of article 6.’ Criminal trials require ‘the same kind of fundamental guarantee in the form of publicity.’
35115/97, [2000] ECHR 575
Worldlii, Bailii
European Convention on Human Rights 6
Human Rights
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Cited – In re S (a Child) (Identification: Restrictions on Publication) HL 28-Oct-2004
Inherent High Court power may restrain Publicity
The claimant child’s mother was to be tried for the murder of his brother by poisoning with salt. It was feared that the publicity which would normally attend a trial, would be damaging to S, and an application was made for reporting restrictions to . .
Cited – Hammond, Regina (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department HL 1-Dec-2005
The claimants had been convicted of murder, but their tariffs had not yet been set when the 2003 Act came into effect. They said that the procedure under which their sentence tarriffs were set were not compliant with their human rights in that the . .
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Updated: 29 August 2021; Ref: scu.165971