Communicated on 16 December 2020 Published on 11 January 2021

THIRD SECTION

Application no. 703/19 Atli Gu ð j ó n HELGASON against Iceland lodged on 19 December 2018

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

By a District Court judgment in May 2001, the applicant was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years ’ imprisonment and disbarred indefinitely from practising as an attorney. The application concerns the applicant ’ s attempts to restore his licence to practise as an attorney.

By a District Court ruling on 16 May 2018, the applicant ’ s licen c e to practice as an attorney was restored. The Court of Appeal overturned the ruling on 20 June 2018 and the Supreme Court refused the applicant leave to appeal on 10 July 2018.

The applicant complains under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention that the Court of Appeal had not been a “tribunal established by law” because one of the judges on the bench which ruled on his case had not been appointed in accordance with the domestic law .

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Did the proceedings before the Court of Appeal violate the applicant ’ s right to be heard by a tribunal established by law guaranteed by Article 6 § 1 of the Convention (see, Guðmundur Andri Ástráðsson v. Iceland [GC] , no. 26374/18, §§ 235-290, 1 December 2020)?