FIFTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 24153/19
Anastasija Gennadjevna ŽUK
against the Czech Republic
The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 28 September 2023 as a Committee composed of:
Carlo Ranzoni, President,
Lado Chanturia,
María Elósegui, judges,
and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 30 April 2019,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The applicant, Ms Anastasija Gennadjevna Žuk, was born in 1999.
The applicant’s complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning her access to a court were communicated to the Czech Government (“the Government”).
In a letter of 14 March 2023, the applicant’s legal representative, who had introduced the application on the applicant’s behalf, informed the Court that the applicant had withdrawn her power of attorney on 6 March 2023.
Since the postal deliveries to Russia had been interrupted since March 2022, a copy of the letter with a request to appoint a new attorney was sent to the applicant by email. No reply was received.
By a letter of 19 April 2023 sent to the applicant via the Court’s Electronic Communication Service (“eComms”), the applicant was again invited to appoint a legal representative by 31 May 2023. The applicant did not respond.
The Government submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. Those were transmitted to the applicant via eComms and she was invited to submit her own observations by 31 August 2023. Yet again, no response has been received.
The Court notes that all its correspondence sent to the applicant by eComms has not been downloaded, that it is not possible to reach the applicant by post and that, after she had revoked her power of attorney, the applicant did not contact the Court.
Those circumstances therefore lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue her application.
THE LAW
In the light of the foregoing, and in the absence of any special circumstances regarding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Convention and the Protocols thereto, the Court, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the application.
Accordingly, the case should be struck out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.
Done in English and notified in writing on 19 October 2023.
Viktoriya Maradudina Carlo Ranzoni
Acting Deputy Registrar President