DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE LOPES ROCHA

( Translation )

I voted in favour of finding that there had been no violation of the applicant’s right to a hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, for the reasons that I set out, together with several of my colleagues, in my dissenting opinion in the case of Incal v. Turkey (judgment of 9 June 1998, Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1998-IV).

[1] Notes by the Registrar

. The case is numbered 70 / 1997 / 854 / 1061 . The first number is the case’s position on the list of cases referred to the Court in the relevant year (second number). The last two numbers indicate the case’s position on the list of cases referred to the Court since its creation and on the list of the corresponding originating applications to the Commission.

[2] . Rules of Court A apply to all cases referred to the Court before the entry into force of Protocol No. 9 (1 October 1994) and thereafter only to cases concerning States not bound by that Protocol. They correspond to the Rules that came into force on 1 January 1983, as amended several times subsequently.

[3] . Note by the Registrar . For practical reasons this annex will appear only with the printed version of the judgment (in Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1998), but a copy of the Commission’s report is obtainable from the registry.