… 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed in Rome on 4 November 1950, to which
Articles
47
and 48 of the
Charter
correspond in the EU legal order, holds, particularly in criminal matters, a prominent place in a democratic society (ECtHR, 7 July 1989, Soering v. …
… United Kingdom, CE:ECHR:1989:0707JUD001403888, paragraph 113).
95 Similarly, it must be emphasised that the principles of judicial
independence
and
impartiality
and the right to effective judicial protection are standards that are essential for respect for the rule of law, which is itself one of the primary values on which the European Union is founded, as is stated in
Article
2 TEU, the preambles to the EU Treaty and the Charter (see, to that effect, judgment of 15 September 2016, Klyuyev v Council …
… Union’s action on the international scene is to seek to advance in the wider world, inter alia, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and respect for international law.
94 In the third place, as regards specifically the right to a fair trial and to respect for the presumption of innocence, infringement of which is alleged in this instance, it must be noted that, according to the European Court of Human Rights (‘the ECtHR’), the right to a fair trial, as embodied in
Article
…