The applicant, Emiliya Melikyan, is an Armenian national who was born in 1949 and lives
in Yerevan. In 2004 she wished to acquire shares in the State Company for which she
was working at the time, which was to be privatised. Together with other employees of
the company, she brought court proceedings contesting the legality of the Government
decree concerning the privatisation, which stipulated that the shares were to be sold to a
certain third party. Relying in particular on Article 6 § 1 (access to court) of the
European Convention on Human Rights, Ms Melikyan complained that she had been
deprived of the right to challenge the legality of the decree before the Armenian courts,
as they had refused to examine the claim on the merits.
Violation of Article 6 § 1
Just satisfaction: EUR 3,600 (non-pecuniary damage)
