Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights: A Practitioner’s Handbook a decision can be taken without further examination. Typically, cases decided by a single judge are cases that clearly do not fulfil the admissibility requirements such as the time limit of six months, or the exhaustion of domestic remedies. A single judge may also strike out a case of the Court’s list of cases when the applicant, for instance, withdraws the application. Single judges are assisted by non-judicial rapporteurs who are usually experienced lawyers from the Registry. Single judges are appointed by the President of the Court and shall examine cases with respect to a specific member State. Single judges cannot examine cases involving the State of which they are a national. In other words, the Italian judge cannot act as a single judge for cases against Italy. Inadmissibility decisions by a single judge are not communicated to the respondent Government. The applicant, on the other hand, receives a letter informing him or her of such a decision. Specific reasons for the inadmissibility decision are, however, not provided. 2.1.7 Judge Rapporteurs If a case is not assigned to a single judge the President of the Chamber to which the case was assigned to will designate an application to a judge rapporteur. The judge rapporteur will decide whether to submit an application to a Committee or a Chamber. The identity of the judge rapporteur in a specific case is not disclosed to the parties. The judge rapporteur may request the parties to submit further documents or factual information. It is also the judge rapporteur in close collaboration with the case lawyer, who drafts the decision for the attention of the Committee or the Chamber. 2.1.8 Decisions by Committees If a judge rapporteur thinks the case is either inadmissible or “manifestly well-founded”, he or she assigns the case to a Committee. A Committee is comprised of three judges who belong to the same Section. Most Committee cases are declared inadmissible.93 In addition to inadmissibility decisions, the Committee can also decide on cases that are “manifestly well-founded”. These are cases that concern an issue for which there is well-established case law. These cases are also often referred to as repetitive or clone cases.94 Committee decisions need to be unanimous. If there is no unanimity amongst the three judges of the Committee, the application will be referred to a Chamber of seven judges. If the Committee declares an application inadmissible, the applicant will be informed of the decision by means of a letter that contains only the 93 94 50 See e.g. Hallmeijer v. the Netherlands (dec.), no. 67590/12, 22 October 2013. See e.g. Triantafyllou v. Greece, no. 26021/10, 14 November 2013.