TEIXEIRA DE CASTRO JUDGMENT OF 9 JUNE 1998 14 2. Holds unanimously that it is unnecessary to examine whether there has been a violation of Article 3 of the Convention; 3. Holds unanimously that it is unnecessary also to examine the case under Article 8 of the Convention; 4. Holds by eight votes to one (a) that the respondent State is to pay the applicant, within three months, the following sums: (i) 10,000,000 (ten million) escudos for pecuniary and nonpecuniary damage; (ii) 1,800,000 (one million eight hundred thousand) escudos for costs and expenses, less 19,801.70 French francs (nineteen thousand eight-hundred and one francs seventy centimes) to be converted into escudos at the rate applicable on the date of settlement ; and (b) that simple interest at an annual rate of 10% shall be payable on those sums from the expiry of the above-mentioned three months until settlement; 5. Dismisses unanimously the remainder of the claim for just satisfaction. Done in English and in French, and delivered at a public hearing in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg, on 9 June 1998. Signed: Rudolf BERNHARDT President Signed: Herbert PETZOLD Registrar In accordance with Article 51 § 2 of the Convention and Rule 55 § 2 of Rules of Court B, the separate opinion of Mr Butkevych is annexed to this judgment. Initialled: R. B. Initialled: H. P.

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