One of admissibility criteria for accepting the application to the European Court of Justice is victim status. This criteria has a roll to prevent actio popularis in Court proceedings. Concept of victim is much more complicated than it seems. Court has developed, through its case-law, autonomous concept of victim. ECHR, brought over half a century ago, with only 14 protocols, proved to be incapable of staying in touch with modern legal life and human rights development. This is why, in some cases, we can find inadequate use of some legal terms. Those mistakes are made in good fate, in order to made ECHR applicable to some new legal situations, but regardless to that, they are unacceptable. One of them is confusion between terms of direct and indirect victim.Jedan od kriterijuma za prihvatanje žalbe Evropskom sudu za ljudska prava je status žrtve. Taj koncept žrtve je međutim mnogo komplikovaniji nego što izgleda. Sud u Strazburu je kroz svoju praksu razvio poseban pojam žrtve. Ponekad se može u tom smislu napraviti izvesna konfuzija između pojmova direktne i indirektne žrtve. Ovaj članak ukazuje na probleme u definisanju ovih pojmova
