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GAZETTE
JULY
INTERNATIONAL SECTION
European Commission of Human Rights Rules
on Applications
The 127th Session of the European Commission of
Human Rights was held in Strasbourg, May 9 to 19,
1977. At the close of the session the Secretary reported
that the Commission considered some 200 individual
applications (Art. 25 of the European Comvention on
Human Rights).
A. Examination of admissibility
I. Applications declared admissible
Six applications were declared admissible by the
Commission and will now be examined on their merits:
I. Salvatore Bocchieri against Italy
The Commission admitted the applicant's remaining
complaint under Art. 6(1) of the European Convention on
Human Rights relating to the length of criminal
proceedings against him.
2'.
A, B and D against the United Kingdom
(Applications Nos. 6840/74, 6870/75 and
6998/75).
The applicants admitted complaints under Arts. 3 and
5 of the Convention which relate to their detention as
mental patients.
3. Pat Arrowsmith against the United Kingdom
The applicant, a dedicated pacifist, was convicted and
sentenced to a term of imprisonment for the offence of
trying to seduce soldiers from their duty or allegiance by
distributing leaflets to them as part of a campaign against
the United Kingdom military role in Northern Ireland.
She invokes in particular Arts. 9 and 10 of the
Convention.
4.
Leo Zand against Austria
The applicant complains that the Labour Court, which
in a suit for damages gave judgment against him at first
instance, was not an "independent tribunal established by
law" as required by Art. 6 (1) of the Convention.
II.
Applications dec lared inadmissible or
struck off the list
1. Ordinary proceedings
After substantial deliberations the Commission
declared 32 applications inadmissible and struck 52
applications off its list of cases.
(a) The following were among the applications declared
inadmissible:
Two applications (Nos. 6555/74 and 6556/74)
concerning events during a search in the Maze prison at
Long Kesh in Northern Ireland and the alleged unfairness
of subsequent civil proceedings before the Belfast courts;
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Two applications (Nos. 6909/75 and 7508/76) against
Italy concerning compensation claims for the loss of
property situated in former Italian territories which were
ceded to Yugoslavia after World War II;
An application (No. 7628/76) against Belgium concerning
the right of an accused person "to be informed of the
nature and cause of the accusation against him";
15 applications by foreign students who were refused
permission to remain in the United Kingdom;
Two applications (No. 7737/76 and 7754/77)
concerning the interference by Swiss authorities with the
correspondence between persons detained in the Federal
Republic of Germany and Switzerland who are suspected
of having contacts with groups of militant anarchists;
An application (No 7754/77) concerning the execution of
a disciplinary penalty (arrest) in a Swiss prison;
An application (No 7774/77) concerning the detention of
an alcoholic by an administrative authority in Switzerland
and the absence of a remedy before a court of law;
An application (No 7816/77) concerning the expulsion of
an alien, married to a German national, from the Federal
Republic of Germany following his conviction and
sentence for a serious drug offence;
Two applications (X v. Denmark and Hosenball v. the
United Kingdom) concerning the alleged unfairness of
deportation proceedings.
(b) Among the cases struck off were 51 applications
lodged against the United Kingdom by East African
Asians (Group V) who, having been admitted to the
United Kingdom, had failed to pursue their petitions.
2. Summary proceedings
The Commission also declared 63 applications
inadmissible and struck off its list of cases four
applications in the summary procedure, which it uses in
cases which do not raise any special problems.
I I I . A p p l i c a t i o ns c ommu n i c a t ed
to
Governments
The Commission decided to bring 12 applications to
the notice of the respondent Governments inviting them
to submit written observations on the admissibility of
these applications. Among these were the following:
An application (No. 6504/74) concerning the length of
Labour Court proceedings in the Federal Republic of
Germany;
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