Court of Justice 12 June 1997, C-291/96 (Criminal proceedings against Martino Grado and Shahid Bashir.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1 By this reference for a preliminary ruling, the Amtsgericht (Local Court), Reutlingen, asks the Court to rule on the interpretation of Article 6 of the EC Treaty, in order to determine whether failure on the part of the Public Prosecutor's Office to use a courtesy title when referring to the defendant in criminal proceedings