ELCI AND OTHERS v. TURKEY JUDGMENT 116 prescribed by law, there being no record of any prior or post legitimisation having been given by a Prosecutor (paragraphs 675-685 above). Similarly, the Court finds that no search warrants were issued by a Prosecutor or Judge and no official document or note of verbal instructions describing the purpose and scope of the searches was drawn up by any judicial authority beforehand or afterwards. 698. Insofar as Article 11 of the Law No. 2935 on the State of Emergency and Article 3 of Decree No. 430 for the state of emergency region gave the Regional Governor powers to order searches and seizure where delay was deemed prejudicial (paragraph 582 above), the Court notes that no record of the Governor's instructions for these particular searches, delimiting their object and scope, was produced by the Government. However, the search and seizures were extensive and privileged professional materials were taken without specific authorisation. The Court is again struck by the lack of accountability or any acceptance of direct responsibility by the officials involved in the events of the present case (cf. paragraph 680 above). 699. In sum, the Court finds that the search and seizure measures in the present case were implemented without any, or any proper, authorisation or safeguards. In these circumstances, the Court concludes that the interferences in question have not been shown to be “in accordance with the law” and that there has accordingly been a violation of Article 8 on this ground in the case of the five applicants concerned. In view of this conclusion, the Court does not find it necessary to examine the other issues of justification arising under the Article. 700. Having regard to its conclusion that there has been a violation of Article 8 of the Convention, the Court similarly does not find it necessary to examine separately the applicants' related complaints under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1. VI. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF FORMER ARTICLE 25 OF THE CONVENTION A. Submissions of the parties 1. The applicants 701. Finally, the applicants Tahir Elçi, İmam Şahin, Arzu Şahin, Sabahattin Acar and Baki Demırhan alleged a hindrance to their right to make complaints to the Convention organs, in breach of Article 25 of the Convention (now replaced by Article 34), which provided as follows: