Auszug aus EGMR, 21.09.1999 - 38841/97

That rule must be applied "with some degree of flexibility and without excessive formalism"; it is sufficient that the complaints intended to be made subsequently in Strasbourg should have been raised, "at least in substance and in compliance with the formal requirements and time-limits laid down in domestic law", before the national authorities (see the Castells v. Spain judgment of 23 April 1992, Series A no. 236, p. 19, § 27, and the Akdivar and Others v. Turkey judgment of 16 September 1996, Reports 1996-IV, pp. 1210-11, §§ 65-69).