Information Note on the Court’s case-law 5

April 1999

Antunes Tomás Rebocho v. Portugal - 34562/97

Judgment 30.4.1999 [Section IV]

Article 6

Civil proceedings

Article 6-1

Reasonable time

Length of civil proceedings: friendly settlement

This case concerned the length of civil proceedings. In May 1992 the applicant brought an action in damages for loss sustained in a road-traffic accident. In 1996 a court of first instance awarded him part of his claim. The applicant appealed to the Lisbon Court of Appeal, which delivered its decision in February 1998. The outcome of the appeal is not known.

The Government have agreed to pay the applicant compensation of 700,000 es cudos in settlement of the case.

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