LOBZHANIDZE AND PERADZE v. GEORGIA - 21447/11 (Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Fifth Section)

Art 6 � 1 (criminal) • Fair hearing • Allegedly insufficient reasoning for applicants� conviction • Explicit reply not required for arguments insufficiently arguable or substantiated as to cast doubt on domestic courts� findings and the body of evidence available

Art 6 � 1 (criminal) and Art 6 � 3 (c) • Fair hearing • Legal assistance of own choosing • Unmotivated appointment of legal-aid lawyer, rather than the counsel chosen by applicant, without informing the latter • Absence of contact between applicant and legal-aid lawyer during proceedings before the first-instance court • Leave to appeal against in absentia conviction refused on excessively formalistic grounds without addressing applicant�s arguments

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 � 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

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

��������� S�ofra O�Leary, President, ��������� Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, ��������� Andr� Potocki, ��������� Yonko Grozev, ��������� Mārtiņ� Mits, ��������� Lәtif H�seynov, ��������� Lado Chanturia, judges, and Claudia Westerdiek, Section Registrar,