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Ruiz Rivera v Switzerland

Author / Contributor: Kris Gledhill
14.04
Ruiz Rivera v Switzerland
   
Issue: Whether there was a breach of Art 5(4) ECHR when detention resting on mental disorder was ordered to continue in 2004 on the basis of a psychiatric report from 2001 to the effect that the disorder was little changed from a 1995 assessment.
   
Court: ECtHR
   
Reference:   Appn 8300/06
   
Neutral Citation:  
   
Judge(s): G Raimondi (President), I Karakas, P Lorenzen, D Popovic, A Sajó, P Pinto de Albuquerque, H Keller
   
Date: 18 February 2014