{"id":4488,"date":"2025-01-24T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T07:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2025\/01\/case-of-reznik-v-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T07:47:38","slug":"case-of-reznik-v-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2025\/01\/case-of-reznik-v-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE OF REZNIK v. UKRAINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case concerns a search conducted at a lawyer&#8217;s home in Ukraine in 2013 in connection with criminal proceedings against his client. The Court found violations of Articles 8 and 13 of the Convention.The key aspects of the decision are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The search warrant was overly broad and lacked sufficient reasoning to justify the belief that relevant evidence would be found at the lawyer&#8217;s premises<\/li>\n<li>The seizure and examination of electronic devices potentially containing privileged material was done without adequate safeguards<\/li>\n<li>The devices were kept by authorities for an unjustifiably long period<\/li>\n<li>There was no effective remedy available to challenge the lawfulness of the search warrant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main provisions of the decision include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court emphasized that searches of lawyers&#8217; premises require especially strict scrutiny to protect legal privilege<\/li>\n<li>While acknowledging improvements in Ukrainian legislation since previous cases, the Court found serious deficiencies remained in protecting legal professional privilege during searches<\/li>\n<li>The Court awarded \u20ac6,000 in non-pecuniary damages and \u20ac3,450 for legal costs to the first applicant<\/li>\n<li>The complaints by other family members living in the same apartment were dismissed as manifestly ill-founded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The decision highlights the need for specific safeguards when searching lawyers&#8217; premises, particularly regarding electronic data that may contain privileged information. It also emphasizes the importance of having effective remedies to challenge search warrants affecting lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/?i=001-240192\"><strong>Full text by link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case concerns a search conducted at a lawyer&#8217;s home in Ukraine in 2013 in connection with criminal proceedings against his client. The Court found violations of Articles 8 and 13 of the Convention.The key aspects of the decision are: The search warrant was overly broad and lacked sufficient reasoning to justify the belief that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[129,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-echr-decisions","category-eu-legislation-important","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}