The Court has declared inadmissible the application in the case of Association confraternelle de la Presse Judiciaire and Others v. France.

The applicants in this case alleged that the French legislation on intelligence-gathering techniques infringed the right to respect for private life, the right to freedom of expression and the right to an effective remedy and to a fair hearing.

The Court found that, at the time the applicants lodged their applications, an effective remedy had been available to them before the Conseil d’État. They should have first used that avenue to submit the Convention complaints which they had raised before the Court. Furthermore, the applicants had not established the existence of any special circumstances exempting them from the obligation to make use of that remedy.

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