Jan Sikuta was judge at the European Court of Human Rights between 2004 and 2015.
[1] In 1985, he passed the judicial exam of the Ministry of Justice,[1] and was elected judge by the Slovakian Parliament.
[1] From 2000 to 2003, he participated to Open Society Foundations's expert committee of the law program.
[2] As a judge, he was cited in an NGO report for having seated in a case where the Open Society Justice Initiative was involved and other cases where other organizations linked to the Open Society Foundations were involved too.
Due to his previous links with this organization, this would pose the question of a possible conflict of interest.