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The Court considers that the competent national authorities are required under Article 6 § 3 (c) to intervene only if a failure by legal-aid counsel to provide effective representation is manifest or sufficiently brought to their attention in some other way (see, as a classic authority, Kamasinski v. Austria, judgment of 19 December 1989, Series A no. 168, § 67).

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The applicant was one of the applicants in the Shamayev case (Shamayev and Others v. Georgia and Russia, no. 36378/02, ECHR 2005-III).

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Thus, the Court has already found that in certain circumstances, in particular where the victim sustained serious injuries in suspicious circumstances and the attention of the authorities was sufficiently drawn to that situation, the authorities were under a duty to investigate the alleged ill-treatment of their own motion, even without an appropriate formal complaint from the victim (see, for example, Aksoy v. Turkey, judgment of 18 December 1996, Reports 1996-VI, § 56, and Ä°lhan v. Turkey [GC], no. 22277/93, § 63, ECHR 2000-VII).

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In order to comply with the rule, normal recourse should be had by an applicant to remedies which are available and sufficient to afford redress in respect of the breaches alleged (see Assenov and Others v. Bulgaria, no. 24760/94, § 85, ECHR 1999-VIII).