SAKHVADZE AND ZURABISHVILI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 14 December 2016 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 70619/11Revaz SAKHVADZE and Givi ZURABISHVILIagainst Georgialodged on 13 November 2011STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicants, Mr Revaz Sakhvadze and Mr Givi Zurabishvili, are Georgian nationals who were born in 1962 and 1958. They were represented before the Court by Ms L. Mukhashavria, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi. In the course of the proceedings, the second applicant died. Ms M. Uridia, the applicant’s wife, expressed the wish to pursue his application before the Court, represented by the same lawyer.A.  The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.3.  On an unidentified date criminal proceedings were initiated against the applicants on fraud charges. The applicants’ lawyers were imposed with a non-disclosure duty and were not allowed to photocopy case …