CHERNOV v. UKRAINE - 16432/10 (Judgment : Right not to be tried or punished twice-{general} : Fifth Section Committee)

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

��������� St�phanie Mourou-Vikstr�m, President, ��������� Ganna Yudkivska, ��������� Lado Chanturia, judges, and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 16432/10 ) 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 Oleksandr Gennadiyovych Chernov (�the applicant�), on 13 March 2010;

the decision to give notice to the Ukrainian Government (�the Government�) of the complaint under Article 4 of Protocol No. 7 to the Convention and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

The application concerns the right not to be tried or punished twice. After serving a three-day administrative-offence sentence for minor disorderly acts, the applicant was subsequently convicted of disorderly acts in relation to the same facts in criminal proceedings.