One important issue in Knox v. Italy is that Amanda Knox was denied a lawyer during her Nov. 5/6 interrogation and was not allowed one, by an order of prosecutor Mignini, until just before her arrest hearing on Nov. 8.
Raffaele Sollecito was similarly denied a lawyer during his interrogation until just before his arresting hearing, on the same dates as for Knox, also by order of Mignini.
But in the case of Sollecito, Mignini was censured by the Superior Council of the Judiciary (initials in Italian: CSM) on Dec. 4, 2015 for having illegally - contrary to the law of the Code of Criminal Procedure - ordered the denial of a lawyer to Sollecito only orally rather than in writing. Here's an article with details:
l Csm censura il pm Mignini per la procedura con la quale vietò a Sollecito il colloquio col suo difensore
Il Csm censura il pm Mignini per la procedura con la quale vietò a Sollecito il colloqui col suo difensore. decisione soo orale e non scritta, "Ingiusto danno" per Sollecito
La sentenza del Csm arriva dopo ben 8 anni e dà ragione a Raffaele Sollecito ed ai suoi diritti. La Sezione disciplinare del Csm ha infatti inflitto la sanzione della censura a Giuliano Mignini, il pm del processo per l'omicidio di Meredith Kercher. La condanna è legata al fermo di Raffaele Sollecito e in particolare al divieto di conferire con il difensore che Mignini emise solo oralmente e non con un provvedimento scritto, come previsto dalle norme quel 6 novembre 2007. La procura generale della Cassazione aveva invece chiesto per Mignini (difeso dall'ex pm di mani Pulite Piercamillo Davigo) l'assoluzione. Sollecito invece, per il Csm, avrebbe ricevuto un "ingiusto danno" dalla decisione solo orale di Mignini "con grave e inescusabile violazione di legge".
Source:
http://www.trgmedia.it/notizia/Il-C...-Sollecito-il-colloquio-col-s/77838/news.aspx
Translation by Google translate with my help:
The CSM censures prosecutor Mignini for the procedure with which he forbade Sollecito to talk to his defense lawyer
The CSM censures prosecutor Mignini for the procedure with which he forbade Sollecito to intervene with his lawyer. The order [was] only oral and unwritten, [resulting in] "unfair [legal] injury" to Sollecito
The sentence of the CSM comes after 8 years and gives grounds [to claims of] Raffaele Sollecito and his rights. The disciplinary section of the CSM imposed the censure sanction on Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor in the murder trial of Meredith Kercher. The [CSM] judgment is linked to the arrest of Raffaele Sollecito and in particular to the prohibition to confer with a defense lawyer that Mignini issued only orally and not with the written provision required by the rules [on] that November 6, 2007. The general prosecution of the Court of Cassation had asked that Mignini (defended by former prosecutor Pulit Piercamillo Davigo) be acquitted. [However,] the CSM instead ruled that Sollecito received an "unfair [legal] injury" from the oral decision [order] of Mignini "[which was a] serious and unjustified violation of the law".
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The application to Knox v. Italy is that apparently Knox was also denied a lawyer based only on Mignini's oral, rather than written, order.
Thus, the denial of a lawyer was contrary to Italian law and strengthens her ECHR case that her rights were violated during the interrogation and subsequent incommunicado detention.
(And that was just a cursory 2-minute search of UK newspapers)