NALTAKYAN AND OTHERS v ARMENIA - 30312/11 (Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Administrative proceedings Article 6-1 - Access to court : Court (Fourth Section Committee))

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

Anja Seibert-Fohr , President , Armen Harutyunyan, Ana Maria Guerra Martins , judges , and Valentin Nicolescu, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 30312/11 ) against the Republic of Armenia lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") on 2 May 2011 by the applicants listed in Appendix I ("the applicants") who were represented by Ms S. Sahakyan, Ms M. Ghulyan and Mr G. Margaryan, lawyers practising in Yerevan;

the decision to give notice of the complaint concerning the alleged breach of the applicants' right of access to the Court of Cassation to the Armenian Government ("the Government"), represented by their Agent, Mr Y. Kirakosyan, Representative of the Republic of Armenia on International Legal Matters, and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

The case concerns the refusal of the Court of Cassation to admit an appeal on points of law lodged by the applicants against a decision delivered in administrative proceedings in which they had disputed a Government Decree listing their plots of agricultural land as property to be taken for the needs of the State.