European Court of Human Rights  
Case of Sheffield and Horsham v. the United Kingdom

In the case of Sheffield and Horsham v. the United Kingdom [2],

The European Court of Human Rights, sitting, in pursuance of Rule 51 of Rules of Court A [3], as a Grand Chamber composed of the following judges:

Mr R. BERNHARDT, President
Mr THÓR VILHJÁLMSSON,
Mr F. MATSCHER,
Mr A. SPIELMANN,
Mr J. DE MEYER,
Mr N. VALTICOS,
Mrs E. PALM,
Mr A.N. LOIZOU,
Mr J.M. MORENILLA,
Sir JOHN FREELAND,
Mr M.A. LOPES ROCHA,
Mr L. WILDHABER,
Mr J. MAKARCZYK,
Mr K. JUNGWIERT,
Mr P. KÜRIS,
Mr J. CASADEVALL,
Mr P. VAN DIJK,
Mr T. PANTIRU,
Mr M. VOICU,
Mr V. BUTKEVYCH,

and also of Mr H. PETZOLD, Registrar, and Mr P.J. MAHONEY, Deputy Registrar, Having deliberated in private on 25 April and 25 June 1998, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the last-mentioned date:

Notes by the Registrar

[2] The case is numbered 31-32/1997/815-816/1018-1019. The first two numbers are the positions of the cases Sheffield v. the United Kingdom and Horsham v. the United Kingdom (as they were at the time of the referral to the Court: see paragraph 1 below) on the list of cases referred to the: Court in the relevant year (third number). The last four numbers indicate the cases' position on the list of cases referred to the Court since its creation and on the list of the corresponding originating applications to the Commission.

[3] Rules of Court A apply to all cases referred to the Court before the entry into force of Protocol No. 9 (1 October 1994) and thereafter only to cases concerning States not bound by that Protocol. They correspond to the Rules that came into force on 1 January 1983, as amended several times subsequently.