Communicated on 20 November 2019

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 1864/18 Theodoros MATALAS against Greece lodged on 4 January 2018

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns the criminal conviction of the applicant, CEO of a public limited liability company, for slanderous defamation of the former lawyer of the company. The applicant had sent to that lawyer an extrajudicial document to which he had referred to her behaviour as “unprofessional and contrary to the ethics” (“ αντιεπαγγελματική και αντιδεοντολογική ”) and had criticised her because, in his view, she had not fully informed him about the court cases against the company.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Has there been a violation of the applicant ’ s right to freedom of expression, contrary to Article 10 of the Convention (see Paraskevopoulos v. Greece , no. 64184/11, 28 June 2018)?