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Prerequisites

Please fill in this application form with utmost care. If you leave something out or omit a relevant document, your application form is likely to be rejected as incomplete. The European Court of Human Rights assesses, in principle, only complete applications sent within 6 months of receiving a final judgement from the domestic courts. Sending an incomplete application form does not interrupt the 6 months term required by the Court.

Which state(s) do you intend to complain about in your application to the European Court of Human Rights?
The facts you are complaining about concern:

You directly

Your organisation

A close relative or a person under your care or responsibility who is unable to lodge an application

My client who is an individual person

My client who is a juridical person
When did the alleged breach of the European Convention on Human Rights that you are complaining about happen? If you are not sure as to the exact day and month, please choose a date that is closest to the events.

Have you brought your case before the highest court competent to deal with the subject matter of your dispute? The competent national courts in the selected state(s) are in principle:

Country	Type of proceeding	National court(s)

Yes

No

Were there available legal remedies capable of redressing your situation that you have not used?

Yes

No
When was the final decision in your case delivered or served on you?
Do you already have a Reference number (Application number) from the Court in relation to these complaints?

Yes

No

Please indicate the reference number in this box.

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Statement of the facts

Describe here in chronological order the facts concerning your case. Present only key events and court decisions concerning your case and please make sure to deal with each factual matter in a separate paragraph. Kindly note that the length of the description of the facts is not important. In fact, the more concise your description, the better. It is important to be honest, give exact dates and present events in the order in which they occurred.

Be clear and concise and give exact dates.
Be chronological and set out events in the order in which they occurred. If your complaints relate to a number of different matters (for example different sets of court proceedings), please deal with each factual matter separately.
Put down the essential information concerning your case: the key facts and decisions, and how your rights have been violated, without irrelevant background or side issues. Do not include lengthy quotations: you can always give a reference to an accompanying document.
You must provide documents to support your case, in particular copies of relevant decisions or documentary records of any measures about which you complain, such as medical reports, witness statements, transcripts, documents of title to property, or records of periods spent in custody, a notice of eviction or a deportation order.
All relevant documents you refer to should be listed in the document list (step 8 in this form) and you have to attach copies to the application form. If you cannot obtain copies of particular documents you should explain why not.
Where the matter complained of does not cause any real harm or significant disadvantage, raises no new human rights issues that need to be addressed at international level and has already been looked at by a domestic court, the case may also be rejected.

Supplementary Statement on the Subject matter of the application.

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Alleged violations of the Convention/Protocols

Indicate here alleged violation(s) of the Convention and/or Protocols and relevant arguments. Explain as precisely as you can why the facts described in the previous section entail a violation of the Convention or/and Protocols. For each complaint raised you need to indicate the Article/s that apply and argue in brief sentences how it has been infringed.

Examples

Article(s) invoked	Explanation
Article 5 – Right to liberty and security	I was detained wrongfully at the border police station for three days without being told why or being allowed to phone a lawyer or my family.
Article 6 – Right to a fair trial	The criminal proceedings against me lasted 9 years and 8 months for two levels of jurisdiction. Also, I was not allowed to cross-examine the witness who gave the sole evidence against me.
Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life	The domestic courts dismissed my complaints after my employer has been monitoring my personal correspondence and fired me based on the content of my personal correspondence.

Article(s) invoked

Please choose at least one option

Article(s) Area

Explanation

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Domestic Proceedings

Indicate here all relevant judicial and/or administrative remedies you have used in your country. For each complaint, state all relevant court decisions, including those from lower courts and the final decision.

For your application to be admissible, you must bring all the matters which you want to complain about before the national courts and use all the available appeals up to the highest level. You must show that you have exhausted the available national legal remedies and provide dates for each decision, so that the Court can see that you have complied with the six-month time-limit (or 4 months, for domestic final decisions served on you starting with February 1, 2022).

Only a summary of the remedies need be given, with the name of the court, the date and a concise description of the decision taken. Extra details about the court proceedings or how the courts dealt with complaints can be added in supplementary annexes if necessary. Remember to append copies of all the decisions taken by courts or other decision-making bodies, from the lowest to the highest; you must also provide copies of your claims or applications to the courts and your statements of appeal so that you can show that you raised the substance of your Convention complaints at each level.

If you think that there were no remedies to exhaust as they were non-existent or ineffective or inaccessible in some way, you should put down this reasoning briefly.

Examples

Complaint	Domestic remedies used and the date of the final decision
Complaint	Article 5 - Right to liberty and security: Complaint about arrest by police	High Court rejected claim on 05/12/13; leave to appeal refused by Court of Appeal on 14/01/15 in the case with the case file number XXXXXXX.
Article 6 - Right to a fair trial: Complaint about neighbour dispute	County Court rejected claim on 03/04/12; Court of Appeal dismissed appeal on 04/12/14 in the case with the case file number XXXXXXX.
Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life: Complaint about violation of personal correspondence	County Court rejected claim on 05/06/19; Court of Appeal dismissed appeal on 04/05/20 in the case with the case file number XXXXXXX.

Selected Article

Complaint

Domestic remedies used and the date of the final decision

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Is or was there an appeal or remedy available to you which you have not used?

Yes

No

Please state which appeal or remedy you have not used and explain why not.

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International Proceedings

Have you raised any of these complaints in another procedure of international investigation or settlement?

You must indicate whether you have submitted the complaints in your application to any other procedure of international investigation or settlement, for example a United Nations body such as the ILO or the UN Human Rights Committee, or an international arbitration panel. If you have, you should give details, including the name of the body to which you submitted your complaints, the dates and details of any proceedings which took place and details of any decisions that were taken. You should also submit copies of relevant decisions and other documents.

Yes

No

Please give a concise summary of the procedure (complaints submitted, name of the international body and date and nature of any decisions given).

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Do you (the applicant) currently have, or have you previously had, any other applications before the Court?

If you have, or have had, any other applications before the Court give the application number(s). If your first application form was rejected as incomplete, no file is kept, neither the form nor any of the attached documents. So, merely sending the missing document or a letter with the missing information will not be sufficient: you must fill in a fresh application form and append to it copies of all the relevant documents, even if you have sent the documents in previous correspondence addressed to the Court.

Yes

No

Please write the relevant application number(s) in the box below.

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Supporting documents

List of Accompanying Documents

List here all judgments and decisions referred to in this application, as well as any other documents you wish the Court to take into consideration as evidence supporting your claims.
IMPORTANT: If the final decision has not yet been drafted by the national authority, please wait until it is drafted and communicated to you or your lawyer, before you apply to the Court.
Please note: The Court may request you to provide supplementary information and/or documents.

No documents will be returned to you. It is thus in your interests to submit copies, not originals. We will list the documents chronologically for you, however you MUST attach copies of the documents and:

arrange the documents in order by date and by procedure;
number the pages consecutively; and
NOT staple, bind or tape the documents.

You have to support your complaints by documentary evidence. This means that if there is a complaint about an official act or decision, a copy of that decision or document attesting to that official act or measure must be provided. The Court cannot just take your word for what you say has happened. For example, if you complain that your house is being expropriated, you must attach to the application form a copy of the official decision ordering the expropriation; if you allege that you have been refused legal aid for your child’s custody proceedings, you must provide a copy of the document by the decision body setting out that refusal. If there are a number of documents relating to a particular incident or procedure, you should err on the side of caution and provide all that appears relevant rather than risk not attaching a relevant document.

Date

Title of the Document

Short description of the Document

Number of Pages

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Other Comments and Declaration

Do you have any other comments regarding your application? If you do, please write them in the box below.

Who will correspond with the court?

The European Court of Human Rights will need to contact you in order to inform you about the status of your application. The Court may also need additional information from you in order to process your application. For this reason it is very important that you choose the preferred contact person with the Court in such a manner that the communication is not delayed unnecessary. Please keep in mind that failing to reply to the communications from the Court may render your application incomplete or struck out of the list of applications.

Applicant(s)

Representative(s)

Confirmation of correspondent

If there is more than one applicant or more than one representative, please give the name and address of the one person with whom the Court will correspond. Where the applicant is represented, the Court will correspond only with the representative (lawyer or nonlawyer).

Name of applicant Address of applicant

Confirmation of correspondent

If there is more than one representative, please give the name and address of the one person with whom the Court will correspond. Where the applicant is represented, the Court will correspond only with the representative (lawyer or nonlawyer).

Name of Representative Address of Representative

Signature

You must declare that, to the best of your knowledge and belief, the information you have given in the present application form is correct.

Who is going to sign the declaration concerning the accuracy of the information provided in the application form?

The applicant

The representative

VERY IMPORTANT: This section in the printed version must contain original signatures of the applicant or its representative, as well as the date when the document was signed. Please finish to fill in the application form, print it and then SIGN and DATE this section (on page 13 of the printed application form). Failing to do so will result in the application not being examined by the Court.

Please confirm you have read and understood that either the applicant or its representative have to sign and date page 13 in the printed application form.

I CONFIRM

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Review

Page 1 - Prerequisites

This page contains some of the most general conditions that you have to fulfill in order for your application to be complete and admissible. These include: the country you are complaining against, information about exhausting the domestic judicial remedies, the date when the acts took place and the date when you received the final judgement for the highest domestic court competent to deal with your case. This information is required in order to determine whether the country you intend to complain against was under obligations pursuant to the European Convention on Human Rights at the time when the facts took place and to determine whether you are complying with two important rules of the European Court of Human Rights. These rules concern your duty to exhaust all available and effective national remedies before sending an application to the ECtHR and your duty to send the application to the ECtHR within 6 months from receiving a final judgement. If you have not exhausted all available national remedies or you send your application to ECtHR more than 6 months from the moment you received the final judgement from the highest national court competent to deal with your case, then your application will most probably be considered inadmissible.

Which state(s) is/are concerned by your application?
The facts you are complaining about concern:
When did the facts that you are complaining about start and when did they stop?
Have you brought your case before the highest court competent to deal with the subject matter of your dispute?
Were there available legal or administrative remedies capable of remedying your situation that you have not used?
When was the final decision in your case delivered or served on you?
Reference number (Application number) from the Court in relation to these complaints, if available.

Page 2 - Applicant Details

In this page you must provide the details of the applicant, including the full name, address, telephone number and email address, as well as the date and place of birth and nationality for individual applicants. For applicants who are legal entities you must provide in addition to the full name, address, telephone number and email address, you must also provide the activity field, identification number and date of registration.

Select the option appropriate for your situation and fill in the requested details.

Surname
First Name(s)
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Nationality
Address
Telephone Number
Email
Sex
Anonymity Request

Name
Activity
Date of Registration or incorporation
Identification Number
Registered Address
Telephone
Email
Anonymity Request

Page 3 - Representation

In this page you must inform the case on whether you have a representative or not. At this point in the application process you do not need a lawyer, although if your application is complete and reaches a judicial stage where the chamber organizes hearings, then the ECtHR will expect you to be represented by a lawyer. The Court will inform you in good time if this is the case.
It is common that in the case of an applicant who is physically or legally unable to lodge the application, there is a non-lawyer who represents the applicant, for example in the case of children or persons who have disappeared. Either the applicant or a non-lawyer representative of an applicant may give power of attorney to a lawyer. In the case where the applicant has a representative, both the applicant and the representative must sign the authority form giving the representative the power to represent the applicant.

Representative Type
Capacity/relationship/function
Surname
First Name(s)
Address
Nationality
Email
Telephone Number
Fax
Ecomms email

Representative Type
Surname
First Name(s)
Address
Nationality
Email
Telephone Number
Fax
Ecomms Email

Representative Type

Capacity/relationship/function
Surname
First Name(s)
Address
Nationality
Email
Telephone Number
Fax
Is the organisation going to be represented by a Lawyer?

Surname
First Name(s)
Address
Nationality
Email
Telephone Number
Fax
Email address for eComms account

Page 4 - Facts

In this page you must state the matter of your facts. You must present clearly and concisely the key events of your case and the administrative and judicial decisions that you consider led to the violation of your rights.

Statement of Facts
Supplementary Statement on the Subject matter of the application

Page 5 - Alleged Violations Of The Convention/Protocols

In this page you must choose the articles of the European Convention of Human Rights and/or its Protocols which you considered has been violated by the state you are complaining against. You must also provide an explanation based on the facts of your case which explain why you consider that particular article has been infringed upon.
We will provide a link to the convention, as well as a drop down with all the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols that your country was bound by at the time the facts happened. In addition you will be shown the text of each article chosen and any reservations, declarations or derogations that the country you are complaining about might have made to the article(s) chosen.

Article Invoked	Explanation

Page 6 - Domestic Proceedings

In this page you must list all the domestic remedies you have appealed to in relation to the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights which you think might have been infringed upon.
One of the reasons why the European Court of Human Rights declares applications inadmisible is that the applicant does not prove that she/he has exhausted the domestic remedies that were available. This is why it is important that you show that you went to the national courts and appealed up to the highest level in order to seek remedy for your complaints.

Complaint	Remedies Used
Please state which appeal or remedy you have not used and explain why not.

Page 7 - International Proceedings

In this page you must list any international bodies that you have resorted to in order to address your complaints. These international bodies may be international arbitration panels or other United Nations bodies, such as the International Labour Organisation or the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
If you have appealed to any other international body, your application in front of the European Court of Human Rights may be dismissed.
You must also mention if you (the applicant) have sent prior applications to the European Court of Human Rights. This is especially important if you have prior applications on the same matter.

Please give a concise summary of the procedure (complaints submitted, name of the international body and date and nature of any decisions given).
Application Number(s) if you (the applicant) currently have, or have you previously had, any other applications before the Court?

Page 8 - Supporting Documents

In this page you must list all the documents related to your case.The European Court of Human Rights expects to receive a chronologically arranged list with the name, description and page numbers of each document, as well as copies of the listed documents. For this reason you must make a list of all the documents you want to submit to the Court in order to support your claims (decisions, medical reports, witness statements and other material you might deem necessary). Using the information you enter on this page, the digital application form will automatically determine the order and consecutive page numbers of your documents: you just enter the date and page numbers, and it will calculate automatically where in the accompanying documents folder each document can be found. Before you send the application form to the European Court of Human Rights you still have to manually gather the documents, arrange them according to the list of documents on page 12 of the PRINTED FORM. You also have to number the pages of each document consecutively and add them in order in the envelope containing your application.
Please be advised that the European Court of Human Rights has very specific requirements for how the accompanying documents should be arranged:
they should be arranged by date and procedure.
the pages of all documents must be numbered consecutively, similarly to how chapters in a book are numbered. When you generate the printable application form from Justbot, you will receive separator pages for each document that you listed. The separator pages contain the title and description of each document, as well as the start and end page number for each document and they will guide you in numbering the pages of your documents.
you must not staple, bind or tape the documents.

Please note that the European Court of Human Rights will not open and it will destroy any package that is deemed suspicious.

Date	Title	Description	No. of Pages

Page 9 - Declaration

"In this page you must mention any other comments you might have in relation to your application and which you have not mentioned already, but you nonetheless feel they are important. You must also choose a correspondent with the European Court of Human Rights. It can be either the applicant or the representative of the applicant.
In the printed version of the application form, which has a different format from the digital form, the page corresponding to this step in the digital form needs to be dated and signed by the applicant or its representative. Your signature on the application form confirms that the information you have provided in the application form is correct."

Do you have any other comments about your application?
Confirmation of correspondent


Who is going to sign the declaration concerning the accuracy of the information provided in the application form?

Page 10 - Review Page

This is the current page. After you enter information on your digital form, that information will be sent to this page, providing you a way of checking whether you have entered all the information you needed to. From this page you can go back to each page of the digital application form and edit the desired fields.

Page 11 - Finish to PDF

On this page you are provided guidance on how to apply to the European COurt of Human Rights and you can generate the pdf version of your application form. At the bottom of the page you have two buttons: one to send the generated form to an email address, and another to download the form directly from your browser. The document that is generated is one pdf which contains the full application form in the format required by the European Court of Human Rights, as well as separator pages for the documents you listed on page 8 of the digital form. In this pdf you will also find the documents you may have created within the application form, like the Anonymity Request, Supplementary Pages for the Statement of Facts, or any other document.

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Finish

VERY IMPORTANT

The application form has to be printed out and sent by mail to the registrar of the European Court of Human Rights.
Please keep the Court informed of any change of address and/or circumstances relevant to your application.

Before mailing the form, please make sure to:

Add the original signatures of the applicant(s) and/or the authorised representative(s) in all the relevant fields (page 3 if you are an individual that is represented by someone else, page 4 if you are an organisation that is represented by a lawyer, and page 13 of the printed application form). The receipt of a faxed application is not counted as a complete application as the Court needs to receive the original signed application form.

Add full and legible copies of all documents mentioned in your application. No documents will be returned to you. It is thus in your interests to submit copies, not originals. You MUST:
- arrange the documents in order by date and by procedure;
- number the pages consecutively; and
- NOT staple, bind or tape the documents.

You must dispatch the signed original by post within the six-month time-limit from the date when the final decision from the highest national court was communicated.

The completed and signed application form should be sent by post to:

The Registrar
European Court of Human Rights
Council of Europe
67075 STRASBOURG CEDEX
FRANCE

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APPLICATION FORM

Prerequisites

Which state(s) do you intend to complain about in your application to the European Court of Human Rights?

The facts you are complaining about concern:

When did the alleged breach of the European Convention on Human Rights that you are complaining about happen? If you are not sure as to the exact day and month, please choose a date that is closest to the events.

Have you brought your case before the highest court competent to deal with the subject matter of your dispute? The competent national courts in the selected state(s) are in principle:

Were there available legal remedies capable of redressing your situation that you have not used?

When was the final decision in your case delivered or served on you?

Do you already have a Reference number (Application number) from the Court in relation to these complaints?

Applicant

Individual

Organisation

Surname

First Name(s)

Date of Birth

Place of Birth

Nationality

Address

Telephone Number (select country code)

Email

Sex

Name

Activity

Do you have a date of registration or incorporation of your organisation?

Please provide the date of registration or incorporation

Does your organisation have an identification number?

Please provide the identification number.

Registered Address

Telephone (select country code)

Email

Do you want to keep your identity anonymous in public documents published by the Court?

If your application is declared admissible by the Court, your name will appear on the documents related to your case that are published by the Court. These documents are publicly available. You can request not to disclose your identity to the public.

Representation

Representative(s) of the Individual Applicant

Representative Type

Details of the Non-Lawyer Representative

Capacity/relationship/function

Surname

First Name(s)

Address

Nationality

Telephone Number (select country code)

Email

Fax

Authority form (power of attorney)

Have you, as the non-lawyer representative of the applicant, employed a lawyer to represent the applicant in this case?

Are both the applicant and the representative able to sign the Authority form (power of attorney)?

If the applicant is a child or otherwise legally or physically unable to sign the authority, then the authority form may be left unsigned, however you must explain that this is the case - choose NO below and we will help you with the additional steps.

Electronic communication between the representative and the Court

Please provide an email address for ECtHR communication system, eComms. You can read more about the eComms terms and conditions here.

Details of the Lawyer Representative

Surname

First Name(s)

Address

Nationality

Telephone Number (select country code)

Fax

Email

Authority form (power of attorney)

Are both the applicant and the representative able to sign the Authority form (power of attorney)?

Please explain in the textbox below why the applicant cannot sign the authority form and provide the details of the non-lawyer representative (parent, close relative, guardian) who can authorise the lawyer to act on the applicant’s behalf.

Is there another person (parent, close relative, guardian) sufficiently linked to the applicant who can act in the name of the applicant and authorise the representative?

Electronic communication between the representative and the Court

Please provide an email address for ECtHR communication system, eComms. You can read more about the eComms terms and conditions here.

Representation

Representative(s) of the Applicant Organisation

Organisation Official

Capacity/function

Surname

First Name(s)

Address

Nationality

Fax

Telephone Number (select country code)

Email

Do you have a document proving that the organisation official is legally entitled to represent the organisation?

You have to provide evidence that the organisation official is entitled to represent the organisation under your national law. This document can be: a copy of the extract of the company register or of the chamber of commerce register, a notarised authorisation or minutes of the governing body.

Is the organisation going to be represented by a Lawyer?

Surname