TURAVA AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA and 1 other application

Communicated on 13 October 2015 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 7607/07Merab TURAVA and others against Georgiaand 1 other application (see list appended)1.  The applicants are all Georgian nationals. They are represented before the Court by Dr. A. Weber, a lawyer practising in Osnabrück, Germany.A.  The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the cases, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.3.  The applicants were acting judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia.4.  On 19 September 2005 the High Council of Judiciary launched, on account of a complaint addressed by the President of the Supreme Court, under Section 6 § 2 of the Act on Disciplinary Liability of Judges, disciplinary proceedings against the applicants for multiple episodes of miscarriage of justice allegedly committed in various unconnected sets of criminal proceedings.5.  By a decision of 12 December 2005 …