Conceição Gavina v. Portugal
Doc ref: 33435/96 • ECHR ID: 002-6640
Document date: October 5, 1999
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Information Note on the Court’s case-law 11
October 1999
Conceição Gavina v. Portugal - 33435/96
Judgment 5.10.1999 [Section IV]
Article 6
Civil proceedings
Article 6-1
Reasonable time
Length of civil proceedings: violation
The case concerns the length of civil proceedings brought by the applicant in October 1984. The proceedings are pending before the Supreme Court and had therefore lasted, at the date of the judgment, almost 15 years.
Conclusion : violation (unanimous).
Article 41: The Court awarded the applicant 3,000,000 escudos (PTE) in respect of pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and 725,000 escudos in respect of costs and expenses.
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