Failure of domestic court, which ultimately convicted the applicant, to hear evidence from a witness on whose statements it mainly relied.
Judgment

Fairness of criminal proceedings. Reclassification of criminal offence by an appellate court.
Judgment

Refusal of the applicant’s request to examine two co-defendants as witnesses following their admission of guilt.
Judgment

Upholding of the applicant’s previous conviction and sentence in reopened criminal proceedings based decisively on his co-defendants’ incriminating statements made in the absence of a lawyer and later retracted. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Validity of a waiver of the right to a lawyer signed by a person addicted to drugs and suffering from withdrawal symptoms.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Use of videoconferencing technology during a part of the hearing in the criminal proceedings against the applicant.
Decision

Effectiveness of a newly introduced criminal remedy to obtain redress for an alleged breach of the presumption of innocence by public officials’ statements.
Decision | Legal Summary

Refusal to re-open criminal proceedings despite credible allegations that statements, used as evidence against the applicants, were extracted by ill-treatment inflicted during their police custody.
Judgment

Conviction for membership of an armed terrorist organisation based decisively on the use of an encrypted messaging application.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Statements made by the Minister of Justice and Prime Minister concerning an important political and economic figure who had been convicted at first instance and had subsequently appealed.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Domestic authorities' refusal to designate the lawyer of the applicant's own choosing as his free ex officio representative.
Judgment

Failure to deliver a reasoned judgment followed by an acquittal after imprisonment.
Judgment

Conviction based on domestic-law provisions that were manifestly contrary to EU Regulations constituting denial of justice. 
Judgment | Legal Summary

Expert evidence and defence rights.
Judgment

Legislature’s intervention during tax assessment proceedings. Substitution of grounds. Length of tax proceedings. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Obtaining and use of evidence (poisonous substance) in conviction of applicant for preparation of murder. Trial and appeal proceedings held in camera. Statements and conduct of public officials and prosecution authorities after applicant’s arrest (presumption of innocence and exhaustion of domestic remedies in that respect, Article 6 § 2).
Judgment | Legal Summary

Conviction decisively based on confession by accomplice, who was not prompted by any deal, but was later placed in a witness protection programme and spared prosecution.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Privilege against self-incrimination in the context of proceedings for the imposition of a tax fine.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Presumption of innocence in the context of the disappearance of a child.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Weight of evidence given by police officers.
Judgment

Dismissal of criminal appeal consequent on a tie vote.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Absence of lawyer of applicant’s own choosing during initial hours of detention. Absence of reasons in jury verdict and lack of reasons for declaring inadmissible applicant’s appeal on points of law.
Judgment

Unilateral declaration (UD) as concerns facts giving rise to subsequent criminal proceedings against the applicant and the domestic courts' approach to the terms of the Government's UD.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Applicability: Public statements by officials in relation to intelligence service operation (presumption of innocence).  
Judgment | Legal Summary

Applicability: delayed drafting of reasoning of court judgments.
Decision

Defence rights of persons being interviewed voluntarily by the police. Applicability and merits.
Judgment

Defence rights of persons being interviewed voluntarily by the police. Applicability and merits.
Judgment

Inappropriate wording in a civil judgment after acquittal (Article 6 § 2).
Judgment

Use in trial of transcript of applicant's questioning while he was still a witness. Article 6 §§ 3 (a) and (c).
Judgment | Legal Summary

No access to a lawyer in the initial stages of proceedings and incriminating evidence by co-accused allegedly obtained in the absence of a lawyer by means of pressure/coercion (Article 6 § 3 (c)).
Judgment | Legal Summary

Trial court’s decision overriding accused's wishes as to her choice of legal representation (Article 6 § 3 (c)).
Judgment

Conviction based on pre-trial testimonies from migrants, absent from the trial after their expulsion. Waiver issue.
Judgment

Use at trial of initial confession by terrorist suspect held incommunicado and denied access to lawyer of own choice and legal-aid lawyer.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Conviction based on written statements of absent witnesses, who were examined by other courts of their places of residence in the same country.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Alleged breach of the principle of legal certainty and lack of reasoning in tax proceedings. Applicability and merits.
Judgment

Presumption of innocence during proceedings on the lifting of the applicant's parliamentary immunity.
Judgment

Intelligence collected by French agents during applicants’ detention at Guantánamo Bay and prosecution and conviction in France. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary 

Impartiality and presumption of innocence in relation to plea-bargaining. 
Judgment

Applicant acquitted at first instance but found civilly liable on civil parties' appeal. Applicability and merits (presumption of innocence). 
Judgment

Defence rights during jury trial for aggravated murder, including decisions of the presiding judge.
Judgment

Revision proceedings before Supreme Court following ECHR judgment. Applicability and merits.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Lack of public trial and equality of arms in terrorism-related proceedings.
Judgment

Unlawful covert recording used as evidence in criminal proceedings. 
Judgment 

Presumption of innocence in relation to language used by higher courts in compensation proceedings.
Judgment  

Reform of the justice system and delays in proceedings. Applicability and merits.  
Judgment | Legal Summary

Rejection of a request for reopening the proceedings after a unilateral declaration and striking out. Case restored to the list (Article 37 §§ 1 and 2). Excessive formalism.
Judgment | Legal Summary

Right of access to a lawyer during preliminary phase of trial. Unreasonable delays in trial lasting 13 years.
Judgment

Doubts about impartiality of president of Assize Court.
Judgment

Second adjournement to appear in person at appeal hearing not allowed.
Judgment

Agent provocateur claim and the use of unlawfully obtained evidence (video recording) in breach of Article 8.
Judgment