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Day: September 14, 2017

European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section) – Goldnagl v. Austria – 7 September 2017 – overall duration of the proceedings of twenty-five years and more than eleven months, notwithstanding its complexity, considered excessive and such as to fail to meet the “reasonable time” requirement – violation of Article 6 par. 1 of the Convention – no causal link between the violation found and the pecuniary damage alleged, but non pecuniary damage suffered to be compensated on an equitable basis

Art. 6 ECHR, ECHR, Lenght of the proceedings
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The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), in the case Goldnagl v. Austria – 7 September 2017 (Application no. 6822/12) was faced with a complaint of a violation of the “reasonable time” requirement ex Article 6 par. 1 of the Convention in respect of a proceedings on spousal maintenace started in 1991 and still pending. […]

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