Final 15/02/2008
CONSEIL COUNCIL DE L’EUROPE OF EUROPE COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST SECTION CASE OF PFEIFER v. AUSTRIA (Application no. 12556/03) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 15 November 2007 FINAL 15/02/2008 This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision. PFEIFER v. AUSTRIA JUDGMENT 1 In the case of Pfeifer v. Austria, The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Mr L. LOUCAIDES, President, Mrs N. VAJIĆ, Mr A. KOVLER, Mr K. HAJIYEV, Mr D. SPIELMANN, Mr S.E. JEBENS, judges, Mr H. SCHÄFFER, ad hoc judge, and Mr S. NIELSEN, Section Registrar, Having deliberated in private on 18 October 2007, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: PROCEDURE 1. The case originated in an application (no. 12556/03) against the Republic of Austria lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by an Austrian national, Mr Karl Pfeifer (“the applicant”), on 7 April 2003. 2. The applicant was represented by Lansky, Ganzger and Partners, lawyers practising in Vienna. The Austrian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ambassador F. Trauttmansdorff, Head of the International Law Department at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 3. The applicant alleged that the Austrian courts had failed to protect his reputation against defamatory allegations made in a magazine. 4. The application was allocated to the First Section of the Court (Rule 52 § 1 of the Rules of Court).
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