CEDH · PRESS;CHAMBERJUDGMENTS;ENG — 12 juillet 2018

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France (no.   22008/12); nine Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been submitted to the Court, and the 58 decisions, can be consulted on Hudoc and do not appear in this press release. The judgment below is available only in English. Kamenova v. Bulgaria (application no.   62784/09) The applicant, Yordanka Kamenova, is a Bulgarian national who was born in 1942 and lives in Montana (Bulgaria). The case concerned Ms Kamenova’s complaint of the lack of a court decision on her request for compensation for the death of her daughter. Ms Kamenova’s daughter died in a traffic accident in 1997. A lorry driver was prosecuted and convicted in 1999 but the judgment was quashed and remitted for a fresh investigation in 2000. The driver was convicted in a second set of proceedings in 2002. Ms Kamenova brought a compensation claim against the driver and his employer in 2001, during the second set of criminal proceedings. The courts awarded damages to the relatives of people who had died in the accident in 2004, but the award to Ms Kamenova was quashed in 2006 as being out of time as the appeal court found that she should have brought her claim during the first set of criminal proceedings against the driver. The courts also rejected a civil claim by Ms Kamenova, brought in 2007, as it was outside the five-year time-limit for such actions. Relying on Article 6 § 1 (access to court) of the European Convention on Human Rights, Ms   Kamenova complained that the domestic courts had never decided on her compensation claim. No violation of Article 6 § 1     This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions, judgments and further information about the Court can be found on www.echr.coe.int . To receive the Court’s press releases, please subscribe here: www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter @ECHR_Press . Press contacts [email protected] | tel: +33 3 90 21 42 08   Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel: + 33 3 88 41 35 30) Denis Lambert (tel: + 33 3 90 21 41 09) Inci Ertekin (tel: + 33 3 90 21 55 30) Patrick Lannin (tel: + 33 3 90 21 44 18) Somi Nikol (tel: + 33 3 90 21 64 25) The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. [1] Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a Chamber judgment’s delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and deliver a final judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the Convention, judgments delivered by a Committee are final. Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution. Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution [2] Inadmissibility and strike-out decisions are final.