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The Registrar
European Court of Human Rights
Council of Europe
F-67075 STRASBOURG CEDEX
Dear Sir / Madam,
RE: Council of Europe Case Reference:
25077/05
With reference to your letter to me dated July 12th 2005 please note that I
am encountering delays, that are very largely beyond my control, regarding
the completion of my application
for the European Court of Human Rights which you have sent me.
Among other things, I am at present experiencing the following
difficulties:
1) I am being treated for stress-related
illness, which has been certified by my GP (Dr Michael Mc Cavert), and which is
wholly connected with the legal problems I am writing to you about.
2) I feel I need the assistance of
a suitably experienced lawyer to help me fill in the application to
have my case brought before
the European Court of Human Rights, and that despite my very best efforts over a
period of several years, I have so far failed completely to find such help.
3) Much to my surprise, and distress, I have not received replies to several
letters I have sent since December 2004 which are directly connected with my
present set of legal problems. Included are those
reproduced below at the following
six Internet addresses:
Mr Gearoid Geraghty (Lawyer, Fair & Murtagh):
Prime Minister Ahern TD:
http://www.constitutionofireland.com/PrimeMinisterAhernEmail24Feb2005.htm Prime Minister Blair MP: http://www.constitutionofireland.com/PrimeMinisterBlairEmail6April2005.htm EU Commission President Barroso:
http://www.constitutionofireland.com/PresidentBarrosoEmail31May2005.htm Ms Ellen Weaver (Solicitor, Northern Ireland Londonderry Law
Centre):
Citizens Advice Bureau (for Omagh, Northern Ireland):
4) Largely as a consequence of the difficulty
with the unanswered letters referred to above, there are major doubts in my mind regarding the
issue of "all domestic remedies" being exhausted (as mentioned in
connection with Article 35 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms, and in Section 6 of the "notes for guidance"
you have sent me), which is one of the reasons I feel I am very badly in need
of
professional legal advice from a suitably experienced lawyer. (For full text of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms please see
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/Treaties/Html/005.htm .)
As it is the case that I continue to believe, very strongly,
that my legal rights under Article 6 (Right to a fair trial) and
Article 13 (Right to an effective remedy) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms are being violated in very major ways, and which are also proving very painful
and very damaging for me incidentally, I still wish to lodge my application with the
court; and, I fully intend to do so as soon as I can, and as best I can.
Please note though that Mr Madden, the Senior Social Worker who is helping me,
is on holiday at present and not due back at work until August 24th as far as
I know.
With thoughts of the several "promotion" and "awareness" statements
in the Council of Europe RESOLUTION (99) 50 document (relating to the
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights), I am copying this
e-mail to Mr Alvero Gil-Robles. Please note that for reasons
which I feel should be very obvious, in view of what I have related above,
that I am particularly interested in the Article 3. c. statement
relating to the provision of "advice and information on the protection of
human rights and prevention of human rights violations".
(Full text at:
http://www.coe.int/T/f/commissaire_d.h/unit%E9_de_communication/Commissaire/Mandat/Resolution%281999%2950_E.asp#TopOfPage
)
Unfortunately, and as I have already tried to relate via a
number of Council of Europe e-mail addresses last Saturday (August 13th 2005), I have been having
major problems with the e-mail address you have published at your website for Mr Gil-Robles. For more detailed information
on this matter please see copy of
my e-mail of last Saturday at:
On account of the fact that I believe corruption - political, legal,
and corporate corruption (operating on a transnational basis), all very potently mixed up with
each other, all feeding off each other, and all vigorously supporting each other - lays
firmly at the core of the extremely severe set of personal health and legal difficulties I am at
present experiencing, I would like to take this opportunity to state that I
fully agree with the statement on corruption made by the European Ministers of Justice
in 1997 at their 21st Conference in Prague, which I have
reproduced below:
"... corruption represents a major threat to the rule of law, democracy, human rights, fairness and social justice, that it hinders economic development and endangers the stability of democratic institutions and the moral foundations of society". The above piece of text was copied from the "How
was GRECO set up?" page at the COE website http://www.greco.coe.int/ .)
Consequently, I am sending a copy of this e-mail to the COE "Secretariat
of the Group of States against corruption".
Later today, I plan to send a printed and signed copy of this
e-mail to you through the registered post.
Yours faithfully,
William Finnerty.
"St Albans"
New Inn Ballinasloe County Galway Republic of Ireland. PRINTED COPY (by hand) to: Dr
Michael Mc Cavert GP (Omagh Health Centre, County Tyrone, Northern
Ireland).
A copy of the text of this e-mail has been placed at:
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