Information Note on the Court’s case-law No.
April 1997
P.L. v. France (striking out) - 21503/93
Judgment 2.4.1997
Article 37
Article 37-1
Striking out applications
Prison sentence not reduced by length of detention on remand in connection with a judicial investigation subsequently declared null and void: struck out
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No "friendly settlement", within meaning of Rule 49 § 2, between Government and applicant - applicant, however, had stated that he "[was] not proceeding".
Partial presidential pardon - applicant had thus obtained what he had been seeking from French authorities - had been granted legal aid before Commission and Court and had not made any claim under Article 50 of the Convention - circumstances could be regarded as an "arrangement or other fact of a kind to provide a solution of the matter" within meaning of Rule 49 § 2 - no reason of public policy why case should not be struck out.
Conclusion: case ordered to be struck out of the list (unanimously).
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