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):
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/unité_de_communication/Commissaire/
Mandat/Resolution(1999)50_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:
