The court also noted that as the applicant had requested the extract from the police register himself and it had been handed to him personally, the police could not be blamed for disseminating his data

It is true that, although a party to civil proceedings cannot be blamed for using the avenues available to him under domestic law in order to protect his interests, he must accept that such actions necessarily

I reject the argument of Mr Larkin [for the applicants] that because a blanket prohibition on prisoners is incompatible with the Convention that somehow converts into the proposition that all prisoners

    The District Court noted in its judgment that the applicant had claimed that A. blamed him for the murder for reasons of revenge or loyalty.

In view of the above, the Court is satisfied of the newspaper's good faith and that it had acted in consonance with principles of responsible journalism (see Bladet Tromsø and Stensaas v.

In a number of recent cases concerning restrictions on press freedom (see, for instance, Bladet Tromsø and Stensaas v.

Islande , arrêt   du 25 juin 1992, série A n o 239, p. 28, § 63, et Bladet Tromsø et Stensaas c. Norvège [GC], n o   21980/93, § 62, CEDH 1999-III).

    La Cour souligne d’emblée le rôle éminent de la presse dans une société démocratique en tant que «   chien de garde   » ( Bladet Tromsø et Stensaas c.

    La Cour souligne d’emblée le rôle éminent de la presse dans une société démocratique, un rôle de «   chien de garde   » (voir, Bladet Tromsø et Stensaas c.

reiterates that unpredictably large awards in defamation cases are capable of having a chilling effect on the freedom of expression and therefore require the most careful scrutiny on its part (see Bladet

expenses were actually and necessarily incurred in order to prevent or obtain redress for the matter found to constitute a violation of the Convention and were reasonable as to quantum (see, for instance, Bladet

d'avis que le requérant a dépassé le stade de la participation à un débat historique et a procédé à un amalgame irrespectueux des «   principes éthiques fondamentaux du journalisme   » (voir Bladet

expenses were actually and necessarily incurred in order to prevent or obtain redress for the matter found to constitute a violation of the Convention and were reasonable as to quantum (see, for instance, Bladet

Bladet Tromsø and Stensaas v. Norway [GC], no. 21980/93, § 80, ECHR   1999-III).

goes hand in hand with a European supervision by the Court, whose task it is to give a final ruling on whether a restriction is reconcilable with freedom of expression as protected by Article 10 (see, Bladet

The applicant had not been provided with a mattress, blanket, pillow or towel; he had covered himself with a newspaper. The cell had been equipped with one daylight lamp.

stake for the applicant was the validity, or rather the continued validity, of a private contract concluded between an individual physician and the competent Health Insurance Board on the basis of a "blanket

There is a blanket ban on the use of PGD. 11.

Instead of beds, there were wooden shelves with no mattresses, pillows, blankets or bed linen. The inmates were denied the opportunity of a daily walk.