CASE OF FERREIRA ALVES v. PORTUGAL
Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Civil proceedings;Article 6-1 - Reasonable time);Violation of Article 13 - Right to an effective remedy (Article 13 - Effective remedy)
Helen Keller;Paulo Pinto De Albuquerque
4. The applicant was born in 1953 and lives in Matosinhos (Portugal). 5. On 3 June 2005 the Ethics Council of Porto (Conselho Deontológico do Porto) of the Portuguese Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados) instituted disciplinary proceedings against the applicant, following a complaint introduced by a client for breach of professional secrecy on 29 May 2002. 6. On 4 March 2011 the case was dismissed on the ground that the facts had already been subject to a decision in 2009, which had been dropped as time-barred.