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Lorenz v Austria

Author / Contributor: Kris Gledhill
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Lorenz v Austria
   
Issue: Whether the ongoing preventive detention of a mentally-ill offender in an institution which could not prepare him for release and in light of the lack of recent expert evidence breached Art 5(1) ECHR; whether the conduct of reviews breached Art 5(4).
   
Court: ECtHR
   
Reference:   Appn 11537/11
   
Neutral Citation:  
   
Judge(s): A Nußberger (President), N Tsotsoria, A Potocki, Y Grozev, M Mits, G Kucsko-Stadlmayer, L Hüseynov
   
Date: 20 July 2017