Shorouk Express 
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 17. The European Court
of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled in favor of Latvia in the case
Osis v. Latvia, rejecting the applicant’s complaint of a potential
violation of the right to a fair trial under Article 6, paragraph 1
of the European Convention on Human Rights, Trend reports.
The complaint, submitted by the applicant in 2018, alleged that
national courts had failed to ensure a reasonable length of
criminal proceedings related to serious tax evasion charges.
However, on June 26, 2025, a three-judge Committee of the Court
concluded that the case was inadmissible due to the applicant’s
failure to observe the six-month time limit for filing complaints,
as set out in Article 35 of the Convention.
The Court emphasized that a request to reopen national
proceedings cannot be used to reset the six-month time period.
Since the final domestic ruling against the applicant was delivered
on June 22, 2017, and the ECHR application was lodged more than a
year later, on June 29, 2018, the Court dismissed the complaint as
inadmissible. The Committee’s decision is final and cannot be
appealed.
The full decision, issued on June 26, 2025, is available in
English via the Court’s public case-law database. The case can be
found by searching with application number 31624/18 and the
decision date 26/06/2025.
