TEIXEIRA DE CASTRO JUDGMENT OF 9 JUNE 1998
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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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