By this date, they have thus lasted more than ten years. 21.

    For essentially the same reasons, the prosecutor decided that the first   applicant could receive short visits from the second applicant only in the presence of a prison officer, that

At the time of the Constitutional Court's finding the proceedings lasted 12 years and 5 months.

Applying Article 29 § 3 of the Convention, it decided to rule on the admissibility and merits of the application at the same time. THE FACTS THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CASE 4.

Later the applicants found out that the same shares had been given as security by company X. which had been declared bankrupt.

On 20 March 2003 the City Court refused to delay the execution for the same reasons as before.

The proceedings thus lasted more than twenty years for three levels of jurisdiction. 29.

On the same day the agreement was approved by the Plovdiv District Court. 16.

On the same day a lawyer, V., was admitted to the proceedings. 19.

On the latter date, his pre-trial detention had lasted four years, three months and fourteen days.

The two criminal cases were joined on the same day. 30.

On the same day the applicant was informed that a preliminary judicial investigation against him had been opened on suspicion of violations of the Social Security Co-ordination Act.

Applying Article 29 § 3 of the Convention, it decided to rule on the admissibility and merits of the application at the same time. THE FACTS 4.

They therefore lasted seventeen years, nine months and fourteen days. 22.

  The Court's decision, issued on the same day, sentenced the applicant to 24 months' unconditional imprisonment.

The other forensic evidence that the prosecution adduced to prove the same facts was the report produced by the Forensic Unit of the Ministry of the Interior.

Whether there were sufficient counterbalancing factors to compensate for the handicaps under which the defence laboured 14.

    The Government finally noted that the second set of civil proceedings had lasted some two years and three months before one court.

They have thus lasted eight years and eight months for three levels of jurisdiction. A.     Admissibility 32.

    Repetitive cases   In the following cases the Court has reached the same findings as in similar cases raising the same issues under the Convention:   Mehmet Hanifi Kaya v.