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In its Golder v. the United Kingdom judgment of 21 February 1975, the Court held that Article 6 § 1 "secures to everyone the right to have any claim relating to his civil rights and obligations brought before a court or tribunal" (§ 36, Series A no. 18).

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Subsequently, in Deweer v. Belgium it clarified that the "right to a court" applied to criminal as well as to civil cases (judgment of 27 February 1980, Series A no. 35).

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Given these provisions, it follows, inter alia, that a judgment in which the Court finds a breach imposes on the respondent State a legal obligation not just to pay those concerned any sums awarded by way of just satisfaction, but also to choose, subject to supervision by the Committee of Ministers, the general and/or, if appropriate, individual measures to be adopted in their domestic legal order to put an end to the violation found by the Court and to redress, in so far as possible, the effects thereof (see Scozzari and Giunta v. Italy [GC], nos. 39221/98 and 41963/98, § 249, ECHR 2000-VIII).

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This right, however, is not absolute; it is subject to limitations permitted by implication, and particularly so where the "conditions of admissibility of an appeal are concerned" (see, mutatis mutandis, García Manibardo v. Spain, no. 38695/97, § 36, ECHR 2000-II).