In a letter of 22 February 2008 the Ministry of Justice informed the applicant that his request had been granted, that it had been found that his right to a determination of his civil claim within a reasonable

and accelerated psychometrical tempo; she had been under the influence of psychotic symptoms, having repeatedly dropped the taking of medication and having been dangerous to her.

’s partner and father of three of her children; that there had been a violation of Article 2 in respect of the respondent State’s obligation to conduct an effective investigation; that there had been a

There she had been questioned about the husband’s whereabouts, shouted at and beaten. On three occasions she had been raped, after having been blindfolded and brought to a dark room.

COMPLAINTS The applicant complained under Article 4 § 2 of the Convention that he had been required to perform forced labour since he had been reassigned to a post that did not correspond to his qualifications

  In addition, the penalties imposed had in fact been adjustable.

There had therefore been a violation of Article 2 of Protocol No. 7.

Berg, a lawyer practising in Amsterdam. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.

his arrest, of having been detained unlawfully and for an excessively long time, and of his appeal against his detention not been examined speedily.

been collected.

The applicant claimed that she had been unable to talk about the rape until that time but that she had previously complained to the State Security Court that she had been ill-treated.

When travelling to the Netherlands, she had been accompanied by a “travel agent” who had not let her have the travel documents that had been used.

It had been established that the medical panel of Warszawa-Mokotów Prison hospital and a specialist in surgery had found that the applicant had been suffering, following his 1977 accident, from a so-called

Furthermore, he claims that he was forced to leave Kosovo because of serious threats had been made against his life and he had been kidnapped and tortured.

Wenger, a lawyer practising in Berne.

had been diminished, within the meaning of the same Article.

DAUBER BERNEX IMMOBILIER RÉPUBLIQUE FRANOEAISE AU NOM DU PEUPLE FRANOEAIS A R R E T prononcé par Monsieur PARANT, Président, en vertu de l'article 452 du Nouveau Code de Procédure Civile, assisté de Madame

Once recognisance had been provided the applicant had been released on 22   December 1999.

He also complained that during the investigation the charges against him had been amended and that he had not as a result been aware what he had been charged with, and that the indictment against him had

It held that, in addition to the allegation that the judges had been biased, the accusation that “the investigation of the [Borrel] case [had been] conducted in ‘bizarre’ fashion” was also defamatory.