European Court of Human Rights

Resolution CM/ResDH(2010)151¹

Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights

C. against the United Kingdom

(Application No. 14858/03, judgment of 10 May 2007, friendly settlement)

The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention” and “the Court”);

Having regard to the judgment transmitted by the Court to the Committee once it had become final;

Recalling that the applicant’s complaints declared admissible in this case concerned the removal of his children with a view to their adoption (complaints under Articles 6, 8 and 13);

Whereas in this case the Court, having taken formal note of the friendly settlement reached by the government of the respondent state and the applicant, and having been satisfied that the settlement was based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention or its Protocols decided, unanimously, to strike this case out of its list and took note of the parties’ undertaking not to request a re-hearing of the case before the Grand Chamber;

Whereas under this friendly settlement it was agreed that the government of the respondent state would pay the applicant’s legal representatives the sum of 15 000 GBP in respect of legal costs and the applicant’s three children the sum of 40 000 EUR to be held in trust by the Family Welfare Association, within three months as from the notification of the judgment;

Recalling that the striking-out of a case which has been declared admissible is effected by means of a judgment which the President forwards to the Committee of Ministers once it has become final in order to allow it to supervise, in accordance with Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention, the execution of any undertakings which may have been attached to the discontinuance, friendly settlement or solution of the matter;

Having invited the government of the respondent state to inform the Committee of the measures taken in order to comply with its obligation under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to abide by the judgment;

Having examined the information provided by the government in accordance with the Committee’s Rules for the application of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention;

Having satisfied itself that on 10 August 2007, within the time-limit agreed under the terms of the friendly settlement, the government of the respondent state paid the applicant the sums provided in the friendly settlement and that no other measure was required in these cases to comply with the Court’s judgment;

DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention with respect to the commitments subscribed to in this case and DECIDES to close its examination.