GREECE (COURT OF CASSATION) 514 PREFECTURE OF VOIOTIA V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (DISTOMO MASSACRE CASE) 1 (CASE NO 11/2000) GREECE, COURT OF CASSATION (AREIOS PAGOS) 4 MAY 2000

Number: 4 July 1, 2016
Dilara Buket Tatar , Abdulkadir Pekel
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GREECE (COURT OF CASSATION) 514 PREFECTURE OF VOIOTIA V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (DISTOMO MASSACRE CASE) 1 (CASE NO 11/2000) GREECE, COURT OF CASSATION (AREIOS PAGOS) 4 MAY 2000

Abstract

In June 1944, German occupation forces in Greece massacred more than 300 inhabitants of the village of Distomo and burnt the village to the ground. In 1995, proceedings against Germany were instituted before the Greek courts, by over 250 relatives of the victims of the massacre, claiming compensation for loss of life and property. The Court of Livadia held Germany liable and ordered it to pay compensation to the claimants. Germany appealed to the Court of Cassation, on the ground that it was immune from the jurisdiction of the Greek courts. The appeal by seven votes to four was dismissed. The Greek courts were competent to exercise jurisdiction over the case. However four judges, including the President of the Court, concluded that Germany should be entitled to jurisdictional immunity. According to them the exceptions to immunity for claims in tort contained in the European Convention on State Immunity and the United Nations Draft Articles on Jurisdictional Immunities of States did not include claims arising from situations of armed conflict. This term was to be broadly understood and extended not only to conflicts between States but also to armed resistance against occupying forces and the response to such resistance, however disproportionate. Furthermore, an exception to immunity could not be based on the violation of a rule of jus cogens since there was no rule of customary international law that such an infringement constituted a tacit waiver of immunity

Keywords

Doctrine of state immunity, doctrine of restrictive immunity, jure imperii, jure gestionis, jus cogens

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APA
Tatar, D. B., & Pekel, A. (2016). YUNANİSTAN (TEMYİZ MAHKEMESİ) 514 VOIOTIA MAKAMI V. ALMANYA FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ (DISTOMO KATLİAMI DAVASI). Ankara Barosu Dergisi, 4, 289-302. https://izlik.org/JA65HF35LB
AMA
1.Tatar DB, Pekel A. YUNANİSTAN (TEMYİZ MAHKEMESİ) 514 VOIOTIA MAKAMI V. ALMANYA FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ (DISTOMO KATLİAMI DAVASI). JABA. 2016;(4):289-302. https://izlik.org/JA65HF35LB
Chicago
Tatar, Dilara Buket, and Abdulkadir Pekel. 2016. “YUNANİSTAN (TEMYİZ MAHKEMESİ) 514 VOIOTIA MAKAMI V. ALMANYA FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ (DISTOMO KATLİAMI DAVASI)”. Ankara Barosu Dergisi, nos. 4: 289-302. https://izlik.org/JA65HF35LB.
EndNote
Tatar DB, Pekel A (July 1, 2016) YUNANİSTAN (TEMYİZ MAHKEMESİ) 514 VOIOTIA MAKAMI V. ALMANYA FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ (DISTOMO KATLİAMI DAVASI). Ankara Barosu Dergisi 4 289–302.
IEEE
[1]D. B. Tatar and A. Pekel, “YUNANİSTAN (TEMYİZ MAHKEMESİ) 514 VOIOTIA MAKAMI V. ALMANYA FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ (DISTOMO KATLİAMI DAVASI)”, JABA, no. 4, pp. 289–302, July 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA65HF35LB
ISNAD
Tatar, Dilara Buket - Pekel, Abdulkadir. “YUNANİSTAN (TEMYİZ MAHKEMESİ) 514 VOIOTIA MAKAMI V. ALMANYA FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ (DISTOMO KATLİAMI DAVASI)”. Ankara Barosu Dergisi. 4 (July 1, 2016): 289-302. https://izlik.org/JA65HF35LB.
JAMA
1.Tatar DB, Pekel A. YUNANİSTAN (TEMYİZ MAHKEMESİ) 514 VOIOTIA MAKAMI V. ALMANYA FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ (DISTOMO KATLİAMI DAVASI). JABA. 2016;:289–302.
MLA
Tatar, Dilara Buket, and Abdulkadir Pekel. “YUNANİSTAN (TEMYİZ MAHKEMESİ) 514 VOIOTIA MAKAMI V. ALMANYA FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ (DISTOMO KATLİAMI DAVASI)”. Ankara Barosu Dergisi, no. 4, July 2016, pp. 289-02, https://izlik.org/JA65HF35LB.
Vancouver
1.Dilara Buket Tatar, Abdulkadir Pekel. YUNANİSTAN (TEMYİZ MAHKEMESİ) 514 VOIOTIA MAKAMI V. ALMANYA FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ (DISTOMO KATLİAMI DAVASI). JABA [Internet]. 2016 Jul. 1;(4):289-302. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA65HF35LB