And although the Diocesan Bishop
controls respondent Monastery of St. Sava and is the principal officer of respondent property - holding corporations, the civil courts must accept that consequence as the incidental effect of an ecclesiastical determination that is not subject to
judicial abrogation, having been reached
by the final church judicatory in which
authority to make the decision resides.
Lord Justice Lloyd Jones held that «While I readily accept the fundamental importance of the guarantees provided
by Article 5, it does not follow that Article 5 must be equated for all purposes with Articles 2, 3 and 4... In the present state of the Strasbourg jurisprudence, enforced disappearance cases are acknowledged to give rise to an investigative obligation because where agents of the State have assumed
control over an individual it is incumbent on the
authorities to account for his or her whereabouts... I can see no reason in principle why it should be extended to all cases in which a person has been detained in the absence of
judicial scrutiny or
control, even if the detention is not secret or unacknowledged.