AFFAIRE N.A. c. FINLANDE

• Judgment Date: 13 July 2021
• ECLI: ECLI:CE:ECHR:2021:0713JUD002524418
• Counsel: STRENG J.
• Date: 13 July 2021
• Application Number: 25244/18
• Court: First Section (European Court of Human Rights)
• Applied Rules: 2;3;35;35-3-a

FIRST SECTION

CASE OF N.A. v. FINLAND

(Application no. 25244/18)

JUDGMENT
(Revision)

Art 35 § 3 (a) • Abuse of the right of application • Subsequent discovery that documents and information central to the Court finding a rights violation had been forged by the applicant, warranting annulment of judgment

STRASBOURG

13 July 2021

FINAL

13/10/2021

This judgment has become final under Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

In the case of N.A. v. Finland, (request for revision of the judgment of 14 November 2019),

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

Ksenija Turković, President,
Krzysztof Wojtyczek,
Aleš Pejchal,
Pauliine Koskelo,
Tim Eicke,
Jovan Ilievski,
Raffaele Sabato, judges,
and Renata Degener, Section Registrar,

Having deliberated in private on 14 November 2019 and 29 June 2021,

Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the last-mentioned date:

PROCEDURE

1. The case originated in an application (no. 25244/18) against the Republic of Finland lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by an Iraqi national, Ms N.A. (“the applicant”), on 23 May 2018. The President of the Section acceded to the applicant’s request not to have her name disclosed (Rule 47 § 4 of the Rules of Court).

2. In a judgment delivered on 14 November 2019, the Court held that there had been a violation of Articles 2...