Background

Two claimants filed a case against two defendants and requested the court order them to pay temporary compensation for damage which had resulted from the publishing of an offensive article by the second defendant.

The court rejected the case.

The claimants appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.

The claimants appealed the ruling before the court of cassation.

Decision

The Public Prosecution argued that the appeal should be dismissed because the appeal document was not signed by a lawyer.

The court stated this argument was valid because the appeal document should have been signed by a lawyer according to the relevant laws. The court stated that the appeal document introduced by the claimants was not signed by a lawyer.

The court dismissed the appeal.