Miailhe v. France (no. 1) (just satisfaction)

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

November 1993

Miailhe v. France (no. 1) (just satisfaction) - 12661/87

Judgment 29.11.1993

Article 41

Costs and expenses

Non-pecuniary damage

Pecuniary damage

Claim for just satisfaction by three applicants whom the Court had held to be victims of a violation of Article 8 of the Convention

[This summary is extracted from the Court’s official reports (Series A or Reports of Judgments and Decisions). Its formatting and structure may therefore differ from the Case-Law Information Note summaries.]

A.Damage

Pecuniary damage: no causal link between lack of judicial authorisation for house searches and seizures, held to have been contrary to Article 8, and alleged pecuniary damage - claim dismissed.

Non-pecuniary damage: compensation assessed on equitable basis.

B.Costs and expenses

Reimbursement of expenses incurred before Convention institutions and of part of those incurred in national courts.

Conclusion: respondent State to pay specified sums to the applicants (unanimously).

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This summary by the Registry does not bind the Court.

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