Communicated on 16 March 2020 Published on 6 April 2020

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 38572/17 Milan POPOVIĆ against Serbia lodged on 17 May 2017

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns an instance of alleged medical negligence resulting in the death of the applicant ’ s wife, who was pregnant at the time, and the ensuing investigation of the domestic authorities into this incident.

QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES

1. Has the applicant exhausted all effective domestic remedies, as required by Article 35 § 1 of the Convention? In particular, would a civil claim for damages have been an effective remedy within the meaning of this provision and in respect of the applicant ’ s complaint under Article 2 of the Convention (see, mutatis, mutandis , Bajić v. Croatia , no. 41108/10 , § § 72-83, 13 November 2012)? Also, did the applicant invoke before the Constitutional Court, at least in substance, the right on which he now wishes to rely before the Court (see, for example, Vučković and Others v. Serbia (preliminary objection) [GC], nos. 17153/11 and 29 others, § 72, 25 March 2014)?

2. Assuming that domestic remedies have been exhausted, has there been a violation of Article 2 of the Convention? In particular, having regard to the procedural protection of the right to life (see, for example, paragraph 104 of Salman v. Turkey [GC], no. 21986/93, ECHR 2000-VII, and Bajić v. Croatia , cited above, §§ 87-90), was the investigation by the domestic authorities in the present case in breach of the said provision?