Last updated: July 2021 Liechtenstein

Ratified the European Convention on Human Rights in 1982

National Judge: Carlo Ranzoni (2015-2024) Judges’ CVs are available on the ECHR Internet site Previous Judges: Previous judges: Ronald St. John Macdonald (1980-1998), Lucius Caflisch (1998-2006), Mark Villiger (2006-2015) List of judges of the Court since 1959

The Court dealt with 8 applications concerning Liechtenstein in 2020, which were declared inadmissible or struck out. It delivered no judgment.

Applications Applications pending before the 2019 2020 2021* processed in court on 01/07/2021

Applications allocated 6 9 1 Applications pending before a judicial 1 to a judicial formation formation: Communicated to the 1 0 0 Single Judge 1 Government Applications decided: 6 8 2 Committee (3 Judges) 0

- Declared inadmissible 6 8 1 Chamber (7 Judges) 0 or struck out (Single Judge) Grand Chamber (17 Judges) 0 - Declared inadmissible 0 0 0 or struck out

(Committee) - Declared inadmissible 0 0 0 or struck out Liechtenstein and ... (Chamber) - Decided by judgment 0 0 1 The Registry * January to July 2021 The task of the Registry is to provide For information about the Court’s judicial formations legal and administrative support to the and procedure, see the ECHR internet site. Court in the exercise of its judicial Statistics on interim measures can be found here. functions. It is composed of lawyers, administrative and technical staff and translators. There are currently 624 Registry staff members.

Press country profile - Liechtenstein

observations submitted by the opposing Noteworthy cases, judgments party in proceedings before the Administrative Court. delivered Violation of Article 6 § 1

Grand Chamber Right to a fair trial within a reasonable time Wille v. Liechtenstein von Hoffen v. Liechtenstein 28.10.1999 27.07.2006 Statement by the monarch of Liechtenstein Excessive length of criminal proceedings that he would not re-appoint the applicant Violation of Article 6 § 1 (then President of the Liechtenstein Administrative Court) to public office again, because of views he expressed in public on Cases dealing with freedom of the competences of the Constitutional expression (Article 10) Court. Gawlik v. Liechtenstein Violation of Articles 10 (freedom of 16.02.2021 expression) and 13 (right to an effective The case concerned a doctor who raised remedy) suspicions that euthanasia had been taking place in his hospital. In doing so, he went Noteworthy cases, judgments outside the hospital complaints structure delivered and lodged a criminal complaint. The affair attracted significant media attention. No violation of Article 10 Chamber Noteworthy case, decision Case dealing with the right to liberty and security (Article5) delivered Frommelt v. Liechtenstein Steck-Risch v. Liechtenstein (No. 2) 24.06.2006 11.05.2010 Applicant not heard in person by the court Domestic courts refused to grant reopening of appeal prior to its decision to prolong his of the national proceedings following the pre-trial detention (lack of equality of Court’s judgment in the case of Steck-Risch arms). and Others v. Liechtenstein. Violation of Article 5 § 4 Application declared inadmissible as incompatible ratione materiae with the provisions of the Convention. Cases dealing with Article 6

Right to a fair hearing/trial Noteworthy pending cases

Schädler-Eberle v. Liechtenstein Inter-State case 18.07.2013 Relying on Article 6 § 1, the applicant Liechtenstein v. the Czech Republic complained that the administrative court, (no. 35738/20) which had decided her case in the first The case concerns the respondent State’s instance, had not held a public oral hearing, classification of Liechtenstein citizens as in which evidence could have been taken in persons with German nationality for the an adversarial manner. purposes of applying the Decrees of the No violation of Article 6 § 1 President of Republic of 1945 (also known as the Beneš decrees), which, among other Steck-Risch and Others v. things, confiscated property belonging to all Liechtenstein ethnic Germans and Hungarians after the 19.05.2005 Second World War. Applicants not given an opportunity to have See press release published in August knowledge of and comment on the 2020.

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