Information Note on the Court’s case-law No.

July 1995

Morganti v. France - 17831/91

Judgment 13.7.1995

Article 35

Article 35-1

Six month period

Length of pre-trial detention: inadmissible

[This summary is extracted from the Court’ s official reports (Series A or Reports of Judgments and Decisions). Its formatting and structure may therefore differ from the Case-Law Information Note summaries.]

The Government had referred case to the Court by fax after expiry of three-month limit, an d had not disputed this fact - explanations put forward did not disclose any special circumstance of a nature to suspend the running of time or justify its starting to run afresh - hence inadmissibility of application bringing the case before the Court, as it was out of time.

Conclusion : Court could not deal with the merits of the case (unanimously).

© Council of Europe/European Court of Human Rights This summary by the Registry does not bind the Court.

Click here for the Case-Law Information Notes