BUDAYEVA v. UKRAINE - 75485/12 (Judgment : Article 2 - Right to life : Fifth Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

��������� Carlo Ranzoni , President , ��������� Mattias Guyomar, ��������� Mykola Gnatovskyy , judges , and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 75485/12) against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) on 27 July 2012 by a Ukrainian national, Ms Svetlana Andreyevna Budayeva (�the applicant�), who was born in and lives in Odesa;

the decision to give notice of the application to the Ukrainian Government (�the Government�), represented by their Agent, most recently Ms M. Sokorenko, from the Ministry of Justice;

1.  The present case concerns the applicant�s complaints under Articles 2 and 13 of the Convention about the ineffectiveness of the investigation and subsequent court proceedings concerning the circumstances of her son�s death, which allegedly involved State agents, and those under Article 6 � 1 of the Convention about the length of the consideration of her civil claim lodged within the criminal proceedings.