http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20221217-001641-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-slippery-slope-of-a-snooping-strasbourg/ The Slippery Slope of a Snooping Strasbourg - The erroneous application of EU law as an ECHR breach Krommendijk, Jasper Timmerman, Mikhel eng 2022-12-16 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 ECHR ECtHR EU EU ECHR accession Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 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.