CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 29 septembre 2021

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In 2006, the applicants (or their ancestors) brought constitutional redress proceedings complaining that compensation proceedings had not been instituted by the authorities over two decades after the taking of their property. By an appeal judgment of 3 March 2011, the Constitutional Court concluded that there had been a violation of their property rights resulting from the prolonged inaction of the authorities in instituting compensation proceedings, thereby awarding EUR 25,000 in non-pecuniary damage. In the meantime, in 2008, the Commissioner for Lands determined the expropriation compensation at EUR 31,446. The applicants (or their ancestors) challenged the valuation of their land before the domestic courts. By a decision of 8 June 2016, the Land Arbitration Board (hereafter the “LAB”) established the amount of compensation due at EUR   304,655 considering that only part of the expropriated land was developable according to the criteria set out in the law. On 9 July 2020, the Court of Appeal upheld the LAB’s decision. The applicants complain under Articles 6 and 13 of the Convention that they had not been compensated for the expropriation within a reasonable time.   QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES 1.     Given the length of the proceedings to determine the compensation for the expropriation of the applicants’ land, was their right to have proceedings heard within a “reasonable time”, under Article 6 § 1 respected?   2.     Did the applicants have an effective remedy as provided under Article   13 to complain about the length of their compensation proceedings? APPENDIX   No. Applicant’s Name Year of birth Nationality Place of residence 1. David TONNA 1956 Maltese Attard 2. Corinne CAUCHI 1948 Maltese Tas-Sliema 3. Bernarda CUSCHIERI 1961 Maltese Tas-Sliema 4. Anthony Marcel DIACONO 1952 Maltese Ta’ Paris, Birkirkara 5. Margaret DIACONO 1947 Maltese San Ġiljan 6. Martin DIACONO 1945 Maltese Tas-Sliema 7. Victor Anthony DIACONO 1958 Maltese San Gwann 8. Paul DISTEFANO 1967 Maltese Tas-Sliema 9. Victor DISTEFANO 1958 Maltese Santa Venera 10. Maria Dolores (Doris) FALZON 1949 Maltese Encounter Bay 11. Vivien GALEA DEBONO 1945 Maltese Swieqi 12. Godfrey GILMOUR 1944 Australian and Maltese Queensland 13. Doreen MUSCAT 1968 Maltese Tarxien 14. Josephine PERSIANO-DISTEFANO 1963 Maltese Tas-Sliema 15. Anne Marie TONNA 1945 Maltese Tas-Sliema 16. Brian TONNA 1964 Maltese Marsaskala 17. Emanuel TONNA 1946 Maltese Hayborough 18. Godwin TONNA 1961 Maltese Gwardamangia, Pietà 19. Peter TONNA 1966 Maltese Santa Luċija 20. Therese TONNA 1938 Maltese Santa Luċija 21. Victoria TONNA 1944 Maltese Tarxien 22. Rose VASSALLO 1957 Maltese Tas-Sliema 23. Marie Concetta Sive Rhoda WILES 1941 Maltese Winchester Hants