Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 10/16/2018

Subject: The judgment according to which the Supreme Court’s impartiality had been compromised, because the son of the judge presiding over the panel which had decided not to examine the applicant’s appeal on points of law had been the prosecutor in earlier embezzlement proceedings against her, with consequent violation of the right to a fair trial

Parties: Dainelienė c. Lituania

Classification: Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing - Independent and impartial tribunal