RB v. UNITED KINGDOM - 6406/15 ((Art. 5) Right to liberty and security - (Art. 8) Right to respect for private and family life - (Art. 35) Admissibility criteria : First Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 12 September 2017 as a Committee composed of:

��������� Kristina Pardalos, President, ��������� Pauliine Koskelo, ��������� Tim Eicke, judges, and Renata Degener, Deputy Section Registrar,

1.  The applicant, Mr R.B., is a British national, who was born in 1976 and lives in Brighton. He was represented before the Court by Mr A. Pitblado, the Official Solicitor to the Senior Courts and Ms N.A. Mackintosh, a lawyer practising in London.

2.  The applicant is 41 years old and lacks capacity to litigate; he is represented by the Official Solicitor.

3.   On 18 June 2007 he was found in the street having experienced an accident and suffering from a significant head injury which included frontal lobe damage. The precise cause of the injury is unknown but assumed to be a traffic accident. He has been diagnosed with an organic personality change due to an acquired brain injury and has a psychiatric history. The injury also caused physical disabilities and he has used a wheelchair since.