Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Constitutional Court (Belgio)

Date: 07/05/2018

Subject: The decision of the Constitutional Court, applying article 5 of the ECHR and the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg, annulled paragraphs 4 and 5 of article 7 of the law of 21 November 2016, concerning certain rights of individuals subjected to interrogation, since they eliminated from the law of 20 July 1990, on pre-trial detention, the possibility to release the accused person in the event of an arrest warrant without a reasoning or lacking of the signature of the judge

Parties: Ordre des barreaux francophones et germanophone

Original language: Belgian

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty

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