Information Note on the Court’s case-law 10

September 1999

Bohunický v. Slovakia - 36570/97

Judgment 13.9.1999 [Section II]

Article 6

Civil proceedings

Article 6-1

Reasonable time

Length of civil proceedings: friendly settlement

The case concerned the length of civil proceedings which the applicant brought in 1989 against, inter alios , the Czechoslovak Railways, seeking damages in respect of non-payment of sickne ss payments. The final judgment in the case was given in 1995 and was served on the applicant in October 1996.

In settlement of the case, the Government agreed to pay the applicant 100,000 SKK to cover any damages and costs, without any acknowledgement of a violation of the Convention.

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