Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 10/30/2012

Subject: The decision on the excessive length of civil proceedings in the Greek legal system: the Court decided to apply the pilot procedure, deeming that the length of civil procedures and the lack of a remedy by which to complain about this issue had arisen from failings in the Greek legal system and requested Greece to put in place, within one year, an effective remedy in order to provide appropriate and sufficient “redressement” in such cases

Parties: Glykantzi c. Grecia

Classification: Justice - Art. 47 Reasonable delay