Information Note on the Court’s case-law 20

July 2000

Toscano v. Italy - 45068/98

Judgment 27.7.2000 [Section IV]

Article 6

Civil proceedings

Article 6-1

Reasonable time

Length of civil proceedings: friendly settlement

The case concerns the length of civil proceedings.

The parties have reached a friendly settlement providing for payment to the applicants of a total amount of 59 million lire (ITL), made up o f 54 million lire in respect of non-pecuniary damage (21 million lire for the first applicant and 11 million lire for each of the other three applicants) and 5 million lire in respect of costs and expenses (1,250,000 lires per applicant).

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