EU Case Law

The Court of First Instance upholds the Council’s Decisions freezing the funds of Mr El Morabit.  Those decisions do not breach the principle of the presumption of innocence and the Council is not obliged to wait for a final conviction before freezing funds. 

The Court of First Instance upholds the Council’s Decision freezing Melli Bank’s funds. The Court concluded that the Council was entitled to conclude that Melli Bank is owned or controlled...

The Court of First Instance annuls the Council Regulation freezing Omar Mohammed Othman’s funds, notably on the ground that the applicant's rights of defence, in particular the right to be heard,...

The Court of First Instance annuls the Council Decision 2007/868/EC of 20 December 2007  implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against...

The Data Retention Directive (Directive 2006/24/CE) is founded on an appropriate legal basis. The directive was correctly adopted on the basis of the EC Treaty as it relates predominantly to...

The ne bis in idem principle enshrined in Article 54 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement (...), does not fall to be applied to a decision by which an authority of a Contracting...

Prohibition on being tried twice for the same acts also applies to a conviction which could never have been directly enforced. This interpretation intends to ensure that no one is prosecuted...