Information Note on the Court’s case-law 16

March 2000

Pitsillos v. Cyprus - 41854/98

Judgment 28.3.2000 [Section III]

Article 6

Civil proceedings

Article 6-1

Reasonable time

Length of civil proceedings: friendly settlement

The case concerned the length of proceedings brought by the applicant in November 1989 in connection with an expropriation. His appeal to the Supreme Court, lodged in 1994, is still pending.

The parties have reached a friendly settlement providing for payment to the applicant of 2,000 Cypriot pounds (CYP) in damages and 1,000 Cypriot pounds in legal costs. Moreover, the Government undertook not to seek to recover from the applicant legal costs granted by Cypriot courts against him in other legal proceedings brought by him against the Government (estimated at over 2,000 Cypriot pounds). Finally, the Government acknowledged that applicant had not in any way contributed to the delay in the fixing of his appeal to the Supreme Court.

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