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European Court of Human Right (Third Section) – Judgment 19 December 2017 – Milanovic v. Serbia – Overall duration of the proceedings of twenty-five years considered excessive and such as to fail to meet the “reasonable time” requirement – violation of Article 6

On 19 December 2017 the ECtHR (Third Section) issued a decision in the case of Milovanović v. Serbia on application n. 19222/16. Facts of the case On 2.8.2002 the plaintiffs instituted civil proceedings against their employer seeking payment of salary arrears and other employment-related benefits. On 8.2.2013, after two remittals the First Instance Court in Novi […]

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

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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