Forthcoming ECHR Chamber judgment

Press release issued by the Registrar

FORTHCOMING CHAMBER JUDGMENTS

6 and 8 June 2006

The European Court of Human Rights will be notifying in writing three Chamber judgments on Tuesday 6 June 2006 and 15 on Thursday 8 June 2006.

V.M. v. Bulgaria (no. 45723/99)

The applicant is a Bulgarian national who was born in 1947 and lives in Sofia.

He alleges a violation of his right of access to a court on account of his inability to pay the high court fees due in connection with the bringing of a civil action. He relies on Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair hearing).