Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) of European Court of Human Rights, November 03, 2011 (case CASE OF ANTONOV v. UKRAINE)

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Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) of European Court of Human Rights, November 03, 2011 (case CASE OF ANTONOV v. UKRAINE)

FIFTH SECTION

CASE OF ANTONOV v. UKRAINE

(Application no. 28096/04)

JUDGMENT

STRASBOURG

3 November 2011

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

In the case of Antonov v. Ukraine,

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

Dean Spielmann, President,

Elisabet Fura,

Karel Jungwiert,

Mark Villiger,

Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre,

Ann Power-Forde,

Ganna Yudkivska, judges,

and Claudia Westerdiek, Section Registrar,

Having deliberated in private on 11 October 2011,

Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:

PROCEDURE

1. The case originated in an application (no. 28096/04) against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") by a Ukrainian national, Mr Viktor Timofeyevich Antonov ("the applicant"), on 13 July 2004.

2. The applicant was represented by Mr D.V. Antonov, a lawyer practising in Donetsk, and Mr V.V. Skyba of the Centre for Democracy and Freedom, Donetsk. The Ukrainian Government ("the Government") were represented by their Agent, Mr Y. Zaytsev.

3. The applicant alleged, in particular, that the State authorities had failed to take all reasonable measures to establish the circumstances of his son's accidental de...

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