MASTEIKO v. LATVIA

• ECLI: ECLI:CE:ECHR:2022:0519DEC005064018
• Counsel: KARKLINS J.
• Date: 19 May 2022
• Application Number: 50640/18
• Court: Fifth Section Committee (European Court of Human Rights)
• Respondent State: Letonia
• Applied Rules: 37;37-1;P1-1

FIFTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 50640/18
Ēriks MASTEIKO

against Latvia

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 19 May 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, President,
Ivana Jelić,
Kateřina Šimáčková, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 17 October 2018,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant, Mr Ēriks Masteiko, was born in 1962. He was represented by Mr J. Kārkliņš, a lawyer practising in Riga.

The applicant’s complaints under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention about deprivation of property without any compensation were communicated to the Latvian Government (“the Government”), who submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicant, who was invited to submit his own observations. No reply was received to the Registry’s letter.

By letter dated 10 March 2022, sent by registered post,...