Kansainväliset oikeudelliset tietolähteet
24.1.2012
EIT:lta tiukka muistutus sovintoneuvotteluiden luottamuksellisuudesta
Euroopan ihmisoikeustuomioistuin (EIT) on hiljattain antamissaan päätöksissä päättänyt, että kun valittajat olivat ilmaisseet sovintoneuvotteluista valtion kanssa ulkopuolisille, valitukset jätettiin tutkimatta valitusoikeuden väärinkäytön perusteella.
EIT:n lehdistötiedotteesta:The rule concerning the confidentiality of negotiations with a view to a friendly settlement was of particular importance in so far as it was intended to protect the parties and the Court itself from any attempt to exert political or any other kind of pressure. Breach of that rule amounted to abuse of process.
Article 39 § 2 of the Convention and Rule 62 § 2 of the Rules of Court concerning friendly settlement prohibited the parties from publicising the information at issue, whether through the media, in correspondence capable of being read by a large number of people or in any other way. The applicants had been informed of the strict confidentiality of the negotiations conducted with a view to reaching a friendly settlement. In the today’s cases, the information available to the Court had made it possible to establish that the applicants and their lawyers had knowingly disclosed to the press details of negotiations on a potential friendly settlement of the case. The Court noted that such conduct had demonstrated malicious intent and at the very least unfair exploitation because that information had been accompanied by comments capable of discrediting the Government’s actions, which had been taken in accordance with the rules in force.
The Court considered that the applicants had violated the principle of confidentiality enshrined in Article 39 § 2 of the Convention and Rule 62 of the Rules of Court and that their conduct had constituted a violation of the right of individual petition for the purposes of Article 35 § 3 (a) of the Convention. The applications were therefore rejected and declared inadmissible.
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