Judgment concerning France

In the case of A.C. v. France the Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of the right to respect for private life and no violation of the right to an effective remedy in conjunction with the right to respect for private life.
The case concerned a Guinean national who claimed to have been an unaccompanied minor when he arrived in France. He submitted that he had not received the care provided for under French child-protection laws, because the domestic authorities had contested that he was a minor.
The Court concluded that the relevant authorities had not acted with reasonable diligence and had not complied with their positive obligation to ensure the applicant’s right to respect for his private life. The Court considered that there had been remedies available to the applicant under domestic law in respect of the alleged violation of the right to respect for private life. He had to be regarded as having had effective remedies in practice. The Court thus found that there had been no violation of the right to an effective remedy in conjunction with the right to respect for private life.