The European Court of Human Rights held unanimously that there had been a violation of Article 6 § 1 in both cases on account of the length of the criminal proceedings having lasted over eight years

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On the same day after the administration of a treatment, she was allowed to return home with a drip attached to her arm.

    The Söke Labour Court rendered its second judgment on 12   September 1995, awarding the same amounts as before. 12.

The proceedings lasted two years and five months in total. 20 .     By a judgment delivered on 8 December 2021 (case no.

    The enforcement of the judgment of 3 April 2003 lasted two years and three months. The enforcement of the judgment of 19 February 2004 lasted one year and four months.

Thus all the accused, regardless of the date of the second-instance judgment, are in the same position.” 21.

  A repetitive case (in which the Court has reached the same findings as in similar cases raising the same issues under the European Convention on Human Rights) can be found at the end of this press

By a decision of the same date the court rejected the applicant’s appeal and upheld the first instance judgment in full. COMPLAINTS 1.

    A hearing was held the same day.

On the same date the applicant was arrested in Bila Tserkva in connection with the above criminal proceedings and on 18 September 2003 questioned in the presence of his advocates.

The last time he had seen him brought by a group of police officers for a torture session, either on 18 or 19 September, was identical to the others: the same groans, the same question, the same insults

The applicant also complained that his pre-trial detention had lasted too long.

  An autopsy report of the same day established that the people killed in the incident had died of bullet wounds.

They thus lasted nine years and 11   months.   I.

At the same time, it quashed the remainder of the first and second instance judgments and dismissed the applicants’ action.

  The Court noted that the disputed proceedings had lasted about six years and nine months.

    They thus lasted more than four years and two months for one instance.   B.     Reasonableness of the length of the proceedings 22.

On the same day the first-instance court partially granted the action. 15.

It also decided to rule on the admissibility and merits of the application at the same time (Article 29 § 3). THE FACTS 4.