CASE OF PIOTR OSUCH v. POLAND

FOURTH SECTION

CASE OF PIOTR OSUCH v. POLAND

(Application no. 30028/06)

JUDGMENT

STRASBOURG

3 November 2009

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 Piotr Osuch v. Poland,

The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

Nicolas Bratza, President,

Lech Garlicki,

Giovanni Bonello,

Ljiljana Mijović,

Päivi Hirvelä,

Ledi Bianku,

Nebojša Vučinić, judges,

and Lawrence Early, Section Registrar,

Having deliberated in private on 13 October 2009,

Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:

PROCEDURE

1. The case originated in an application (no. 30028/06) against the Republic of Poland lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") by a Polish national, Mr Piotr Osuch ("the applicant"), on 17 July 2006.

2. The applicant was represented by Mr A. Banaszkiewicz, a lawyer practising in Lublin. The Polish Government were represented by their Agent, Mr J. Wołąsiewicz of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

3. The applicant alleged, in particular, that his detention on remand had exceeded a "reasonable time" within the meaning of Article 5 § 3 of the Convention and that the bail conditions imposed on him constituted a breach of that provision.

4. On 29 November 2007 the President of the Fourth Section of the Court decided to give ...

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