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The Court deems it necessary to reiterate that it cannot accept the investigating authorities' reliance on the domestic law to justify such a situation and finds it unacceptable that under the relevant domestic law, the applicant and his lawyer had no access whatsoever to the case file during the investigation, since such a state of affairs deprives the investigation of an important guarantee, that of the involvement of the family of the deceased or disappeared person (see Huseynova v. Azerbaijan, no. 10653/10, § 113, 13 April 2017, and Tagiyeva v. Azerbaijan, no. 72611/14, § 73, 7 July 2022).

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other complaints 33. Having regard to the facts of the case, the submissions of the parties and its findings above, the Court considers that there is no need to examine either the admissibility and merits of the complaint under Articles 3 or the complaint under 34 of the Convention (see Centre for Legal Resources on behalf of Valentin Câmpeanu v. Romania [GC], no. 47848/08, § 156, ECHR 2014).

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The Court deems it necessary to reiterate that it cannot accept the investigating authorities' reliance on the domestic law to justify such a situation and finds it unacceptable that under the relevant domestic law, the applicant and his lawyer had no access whatsoever to the case file during the investigation, since such a state of affairs deprives the investigation of an important guarantee, that of the involvement of the family of the deceased or disappeared person (see Huseynova v. Azerbaijan, no. 10653/10, § 113, 13 April 2017, and Tagiyeva v. Azerbaijan, no. 72611/14, § 73, 7 July 2022).

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In this connection the Court reiterates that the investigation must be effective in the sense that it is capable of leading to the identification and punishment of those responsible (see Hanan v. Germany [GC], no. 4871/16, § 202, 16 February 2021).