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The concept of “law” as used in Article 7 corresponds to that in other Convention articles, covering both and case-law, and comprises qualitative requirements, notably those of accessibility and . It obviously also embraces not only judicial , but also statutes and enactments of lower rank than statutes. The Court must have regard to the domestic law “as a whole” and to the way it was at the material time.
On the other hand, State practice with the rules of the written law in force and which emptied of its substance the legislation on which it was supposed to be based cannot be considered as “law” within the meaning of Article 7 (the border-policing practice of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in flagrant of its own legal system and the ; also the practice of eliminating opponents of the communist regime by means of imposed after trials conducted in flagrant breach of the and constitution of former Czechoslovakia.
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