Information Note on the Court’s case-law No.
August 1998
Ali v. Switzerland (striking out) - 24881/94
Judgment 5.8.1998
Article 37
Article 37-1
Striking out applications
Administrative detention of an alien with a view to his expulsion: struck out
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No friendly settlement, arrangement or “other fact of a kind to provide a solution of the matter” in the case. Applicant had disappeared on 15 November 1994, approximately two months after application had been lodged with Commission by his counsel and four months after giving instructions to the latter, expressing his intention of continuing proceedings before Convention institutions notwithstanding his absence and his silence.
Case referred to Court by counsel for the applicant – given impossibility of establishing any communication with applicant, the Court considered that his representative could not meaningfully continue proceedings before it on sole basis of old instructions.
Conclusion: case struck out of the list, subject to restoration in the event of fresh circumstances capable of justifying such a course (unanimously).
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