Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 01/13/2011

Subject: The decision according to which German courts should not have ordered the detention of the prisoner for preventive purposes retrospectively: in particular, the applicant was placed in detention for preventive purposes for an indefinite duration after having served his full prison sentence

Parties: Haidn c/ Germania

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty - Justice - Art. 49 Irretroactivity of criminal law