Information Note on the Court’s case-law 19

June 2000

Serra v. France - 34206/96

Judgment 13.6.2000 [Section III]

Article 6

Civil proceedings

Article 6-1

Reasonable time

Length of administrative proceedings: violation

The case concerns the length of administrative proceedings (10 years, 3 months and 17 days for five levels of jurisdiction, including more than 4½ years for the examination of the applicant’s first cassation appeal).

Conclusion : violation (unanimously).

Article 41 - The Court considered that in the absence of a causal link between the pecuniary damage claimed and the violation, it was not appropriate to award damages in that respect. It awarded the applicant 30,000 francs (FRF) in respect of non-pecuniary damage.

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