Jump to:
Chapter IV
Fundamental Rights
36. (10) No person who shows that he has been pardoned for a criminal offence shall again be tried for that offence.
Article 17
Issues of admissibility
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute