Applicant name | X. |
Applicant type | Natural Person (prisoner) |
Country | Germany |
Decision no. | 2566/65 |
Date | 06/02/1967 |
Judges | –
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Institution | Commission (Plenary) |
Type | Decision |
Outcome Art. 8 | Inadmissible |
Reason | Manifestly ill-founded; Prevention of crime |
Type of privacy | Bodily privacy; informational privacy |
Keywords | Homosexuality; right of correspondence; prisoner; not a court of fourth instance |
Facts of the case | Man is convicted of homosexual offences. |
Analysis | A short case, which is interesting nevertheless for three reasons:
1. The Commission emphasizes yet again that it is not a court of fourth instance, stressing that ‘it is not competent to deal with an application alleging that errors of law or fact have been committed by domestic courts, except where the Commission considers that such errors might have involved a possible violation of any of the rights and freedoms limitatively listed in the Convention; [] and whereas there is no appearance of a violation in the proceedings complained of; whereas it follows that this part of the Application is manifestly ill-founded within the meaning of Article 27, paragraph (2) (Art. 27-2), of the Convention’. |
Documents | Decision |