MODEBADZE v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 18 December 2013 THIRD SECTIONApplication no. 43111/10Patman MODEBADZE against Georgialodged on 16 July 2010STATEMENT OF FACTS 1.  The applicant, Ms Patman Modebadze, who was born in 1983, is a Georgian national and lives in the village of Khreiti, Tchiatura Region, Georgia. She is represented before the Court by Mr A. Robakidze, a lawyer practicing in Tbilisi.A.  The circumstances of the cases2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, concern her unsuccessful attempt to have civil paternity established for her minor child, who was born out of wedlock on 3 May 2007, on the basis of DNA blood tests.3.  Notably, on 6 November 2009 the Kutaisi Court of Appeals, after a series of remittals of the case between various levels of jurisdiction, refused to accept the results of a DNA test which confirmed the biological bloodline between the applicant’s child and the …