CETINJA v. CROATIA - 6959/17 (Judgment : Article 7 - No punishment without law : Second Section Committee)

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

��������� Pauliine Koskelo , President , ��������� Lorraine Schembri Orland, ��������� Davor Derenčinović , judges , and Dorothee von Arnim, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 6959/17) against the Republic of Croatia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) on 17 January 2017 by a Croatian national, Mr Aleksandar Cetinja, born in 1988 and living in Rijeka (�the applicant�), who was represented by Mr E. Bradamante, a lawyer practising in Rijeka;

the decision to give notice of the complaints concerning property, fairness of the proceedings and the principle of nullum crimen sine lege to the Croatian Government (�the Government�), represented by their Agent, Ms �. Sta�nik, and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

1.  The case concerns the applicant�s conviction for a minor offence which had become time-barred.