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ARZTEKAMMER FUR WIEN AND DORNER v. AUSTRIA - 8895/10 (Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) : Court (Fourth Section)) [201…
JUDGMENT
STRASBOURG
16 February 2016
This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may
be subject to editorial revision.
In the case of Ärztekammer für Wien and Dorner v. Austria,
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:
András Sajó, President,
Vincent A. De Gaetano,
Nona Tsotsoria,
Krzysztof Wojtyczek,
Egidijus Kūris,
Iulia Antoanella Motoc,
Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, judges,
and Fatoş Aracı, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 26 January 2016,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in an application (no. 8895/10) against the Republic of Austria lodged with
the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms (“the Convention”) by Ärztekammer für Wien (“the first applicant organisation”) and Mr
Walter Dorner, (“the second applicant”), on 3 February 2010.
2. The applicants were represented by Mr G. Korn, a lawyer practising in Vienna. The Austrian
Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ambassador H. Tichy, Head of the
International Law Department at the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.
3. The applicants complained that the injunction imposed on them which prohibited them from
publicly repeating certain statements concerning the F. company had violated their rights under Article
10.
4. On 4 September 2013 the application was communicated to the Government.
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