Communicated on 23 January 2018

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 34499/16 Mladen MALI against Croatia lodged on 10 June 2016

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The complaint concerns the unfairness of the civil proceedings, in particular failure of the second-instance court to address the applicant ’ s arguments as regards the admissibility of the opposing party ’ s appeal.

QUESTIONs tO THE PARTIES

1. Did the Zagreb County Court in its judgment of 28 April 2015 address the applicant ’ s argument that the appeal was inadmissible for being lodged out of time?

2. If not, was the Zagreb County Court ’ s judgment sufficiently reasoned, as required by Article 6 § 1 of the Convention? In particular, has the principle of legal certainty been respected?