ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mikhel Timmerman

Mikhel Timmerman is assistant professor of criminal law and criminal procedure at the Research Centre for State and Law (SteR), Radboud University, the Netherlands.

POSTS BY Mikhel Timmerman

16 December 2022

The Slippery Slope of a Snooping Strasbourg

Last week, the ECtHR ruled in Spasov, for the first time, that there was a 'denial of justice' and thus a violation of Article 6(1) ECHR due to a manifest error of law by a national court regarding the interpretation and application of EU law. A Romanian court had convicted Mr Spasov, the owner and captain of a Bulgarian-flagged vessel, of illegal fishing inside Romania’s exclusive economic zone. Spasov is an important principled judgment that further intertwines the EU and ECHR legal systems. Continue reading >>