issued by the Registrar of the Court
ECHR 062 (2025)
06.03.2025
Judgments and decisions of 6 March 2025
The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing 33 judgments1 and 67 decisions2:
four Chamber judgments are summarised below;
a separate press release has been issued for the Chamber judgment in the case F.B. v. Belgium
(application no. 47836/21);
one separate press release has also been issued for the decision in the case of Kotnik and Jukič
v. Slovenia (nos. 56605/19 and 25424/23).
The 28 Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been examined by the Court,
The judgment in French below is indicated with an asterisk (*).
Garand and Others v. France (application no. 2474/21)*
The applicants are seven French nationals who were born between 1959 and 1992 and live in Seur
(France). They are all family members of the late Angelo Garand, who died on 30 March 2017 during
an operation to apprehend him conducted by an operational unit of the gendarmerie. Born in 1979
and convicted and imprisoned multiple times, Angelo Garand had been on the run and had taken
refuge in the applicants’ home.
The applicants submit that the gendarmes’ use of lethal force was in breach of Article 2 (right to life)
of the European Convention on Human Rights.
No violation of Article 2
Gorše v. Slovenia (no. 47186/21)
The applicant, Brane Gorše, is a Slovenian national who was born in 1960 and lives in Ljubljana -
Šentvid.
The case concerns criminal proceedings against Mr Gorše, a lawyer, for abuse of office and money
laundering. He was convicted in 2014.
Relying on Article 6 §§ 1 and 2 (right to a fair trial/presumption of innocence) of the European
Convention, he alleges that the proceedings were not fair. He argues in particular that the judge
deciding the case was not impartial and prejudged his guilt because he had accepted the guilty pleas
of co-defendants before the trial had begun.
Violation of Article 6 §§ 1 and 2
1
Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a Chamber
judgment’s delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a
panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and
deliver a final judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the
Convention, judgments delivered by a Committee are final.
Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution.
Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution
2
Inadmissibility and strike-out decisions are final.
