Information Note on the Court’s case-law No. 94
February 2007
Matveyev v. Russia (dec.) - 26601/02
Decision 1.2.2007 [Section I]
Article 3 of Protocol No. 7
Compensation
Inability to claim non-pecuniary damage for wrongful conviction: admissible
The applicant lost his job and served a two-year prison sentence after being wrongfully convicted by a district court in 1981 of forging a postal stamp. His conviction was eventually quashed eighteen years later in supervisory-review proceedings, after a regional court had held that there was no indication that a crime had been committed. The applicant sought compensation. However, although he received an award in respect of pecuniary damage, his claim for non-pecuniary damage was dismissed on the ground that at the time of his conviction there was no statutory basis in domestic law for such a claim.
Admissible: The Government’s objection of lack of jurisdiction ratione temporis was joined to the merits.
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