Clooth v. Belgium (just satisfaction)

Information Note on the Court’s case-law No.

March 1998

Clooth v. Belgium (just satisfaction) - 12718/87

Judgment 5.3.1998

Article 41

Just satisfaction

Claim for just satisfaction by an applicant whom Court had held in earlier judgment to be victim of a violation of Article 5 § 3 of the Convention: claim dismissed

Recapitulation of case-law: Article 50 empowers Court to afford injured party such satisfaction as appears to it to be appropriate if national law does not allow – or allows only partial – reparation to be made for consequences of breach found by Court.

Provided that it became final, judgment of Brussels Court of Appeal of 7 November 1997 made just reparation for consequences of violation found in principal judgment.

Conclusion: claim dismissed (unanimously).

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