CASE OF ROMANCHENKO AND KHARAZISHVILI v. GEORGIA

FOURTH SECTIONCASE OF ROMANCHENKO AND KHARAZISHVILI v. GEORGIA(Applications nos. 33067/22 and 37832/22) JUDGMENT Art 8 • Private life • Correspondence • Interception and recording of the telephone conversations of a company lawyer and her husband within the framework of criminal proceedings • Procedure applied for authorising the covert investigative measure did not effectively guarantee that the surveillance was genuinely necessary and proportionate with respect to each applicant • Court order authorising impugned measures without relevant and sufficient reasons and without considering the first applicant’s status as a practising lawyer • Domestic law, as interpreted and applied by domestic courts, did not provide reasonable clarity regarding the scope and manner of the exercise of the public authorities’ discretion Prepared by the Registry. Does not bind the Court. STRASBOURG18 Februar …