KARTASHOV v. UKRAINE - 66362/11 (Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Fifth Section Committee)

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

��������� Arnfinn B�rdsen, President, ��������� Ganna Yudkivska, ��������� Mattias Guyomar, judges, and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 66362/11 ) against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by an Ukrainian national, Mr Andrey Vasilyevich Kartashov (�the applicant�), on 14 October 2011;

the decision to give notice to the Ukrainian Government (�the Government�) of the complaint under Article 6 �� 1 and 3 (d) of the Convention concerning the applicant�s inability to examine at his retrial the victims of the offence of which he was convicted and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

The applicant alleged that, while the victims of the crime of which he had been convicted had been examined in the course of his original trial, following the quashing of his conviction on appeal he had not been allowed to examine those victims again in the course of the retrial conducted before a different trial judge, who eventually convicted him.