ILIASHVILI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 6 October 2015 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 22715/07Tamaz ILIASHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 30 April 2007STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Tamaz Iliashvili, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1963 and lives in Tbilisi. He is represented before the Court by Ms L. Mukhashavria and Mr V. Vakhtangidze, lawyers practising in Tbilisi.A. The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.3.  The applicant was elected judge of the Supreme Court of Georgia on 28 September 2000 for the term of office of ten years. He sat in the Criminal Affaires Panel of the Supreme Court, which body had jurisdiction of trying particularly complex criminal cases at first instance.4.  According to the applicant, in April-May 2005 a conflict between him and five other members of the Criminal Panel, on the one hand, and the …