Judgment T.K. v. Lithuania - lack of possibility to examine witnesses needed counter-balance steps

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whereabouts at the relevant time. The applicant complains under Article 6 §§ 1 and 3 (d) of the Convention that he was not given an opportunity to examine the victims and to challenge their statements. QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES Did the appli

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S.M. and D.P. and subsequently read out at the trial? Was the applicant’s conviction based solely or to a decisive or significant extent on the evidence provided by D.S., K.K., M.K., S.M. and D.P.? Have there been sufficient counterbalancin

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c) Have there been sufficient counterbalancing factors to compensate for the difficulties caused to the defence as a result of the fact that it had been unable to question the only direct witness of the offences in question? In particular,

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on the evidence of absent witnesses, the Court must subject the proceedings to the most searching scrutiny. Because of the dangers of the admission of such evidence, it would constitute a very important factor to balance in the scales and o

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be produced in his presence at a public hearing with a view to adversarial argument. Exceptions to this principle are possible but must not infringe the rights of the defence, which, as a rule, require that the accused should be given an ad