Resolution CM/ResDH(2023)255
Execution of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights
Independent Print Limited and Evening Standard Limited against the United Kingdom
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 21 September 2023
at the 1475th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Date of the decision
2511/22
Independent Print limited and Evening Standard limited
23/03/2023
The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 39, paragraph 4, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of friendly settlements as they appear in the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”),
Considering that in this case the Court, having taken formal note of the friendly settlement reached by the government of the respondent State and the applicants, and having been satisfied that the settlement was based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention or its Protocols, decided to strike this case from its list;
Having satisfied itself that the terms of the friendly settlement were executed by the government of the respondent State,
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 39, paragraph 4, of the Convention and
DECIDES to close its examination.