UDOVENKO v. UKRAINE - 33040/08 (Judgment : Individual applications : Fifth Section Committee)

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

��������� Mārtiņ� Mits, President, ��������� Lətif H�seynov, ��������� Mattias Guyomar, judges, and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by a Ukrainian national, Mr Pavel Pavlovich Udovenko (�the applicant�), on 24 June 2008;

the decision to give notice to the Ukrainian Government (�the Government�) of the complaint concerning the hindrance of the applicant�s right of application under Article 34 of the Convention and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

The application concerns the issues, raised under Article 34 of the Convention, of confidential lawyer-client meetings in prison and a prohibition on documents being passed between the applicant and his advocate during those meetings, as well as a prison administration�s refusal to provide the applicant�s mother, who was also his representative, with copies of documents from the applicant�s personal file which he wished to send to the Court.