KAMINSKIENE v. LITHUANIA - 48314/18 (Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Second Section Committee)

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

��������� Ale� Pejchal, President, ��������� Egidijus Kūris, ��������� Carlo Ranzoni, judges, and Hasan Bakırcı, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 48314/18 ) against the Republic of Lithuania lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by a Lithuanian national, Ms Marija Kaminskienė (�the applicant�), on 8 October 2018;

the decision to give notice to the Lithuanian Government (�the Government�) of the complaint under Article 6 � 1 of the Convention concerning the independence and impartiality of judges and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

The case concerns the alleged lack of independence and impartiality of judges in civil proceedings. The applicant alleged that two selection panels of the Supreme Court had not been impartial in view of the personal ties of certain judges to individuals who had a direct interest in the outcome of the proceedings.