EIT: Ajo-oikeuden peruuttaminen erillisenä sanktiona sen jälkeen, kun ajo-oikeuden haltija oli saanut rangaistuksen ylinopeudesta, ei loukannut ne bis in idem -kieltoa

Euroopan ihmisoikeustuomioistuin (EIT) on tuoreessa ratkaisussaan katsonut, että vaikka ajo-oikeuden peruuttaminen ylinopeuden vuoksi oli katsottava rikosoikeudelliseksi sanktioksi vaikka päätös siitä tehtiin hallinnollisessa menettelyssä, kyse ei kuitenkaan ollut ne bis in idem -kiellon loukkauksesta, koska rikostuomiolla ja ajo-oikeuden peruuttamista koskevalla päätöksellä oli riittävä faktinen ja ajallinen yhteys toisiinsa.

EIT:n lehdistötiedotteesta:

In [s] Chamber judgment in the case of Rivard v. Switzerland (application no. 21563/12) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been:

no violation of Article 4 of Protocol No. 7 (right not to be tried or punished twice) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The case concerned the fact that Mr Rivard had been penalised twice (payment of a fine and withdrawal of licence) for the same facts (exceeding the motorway speed limit) by two different Swiss authorities.

The Court found in particular that the facts forming the basis of both sets of proceedings against Mr Rivard had been identical, but noted that the licence withdrawal procedure was a kind of additional penalty complementing the criminal conviction (a fine). The Court therefore concluded that there was a sufficiently close material and temporal link between the administrative and criminal proceedings to consider them as two aspects of a single system, and therefore held that there had not been two sets of proceedings. The Court therefore ruled that it could not be inferred that Mr Rivard had been punished or prosecuted for an offence of which he had already been convicted under a final judgment, in breach of Article 4 § 1 of Protocol No. 7 to the Convention (non bis in idem principle).

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