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Visakhapatnam: Lack of infrastructure and insufficient staff have become major roadblocks for the international air cargo terminal to take off at Visakhapatnam airport.
The terminal was inaugurated almost two year ago, but the authorities concerned failed to acquire necessary logistics like cold storage facility, ground handling machinery, X-Ray scanners, additional customs personnel and more ground staff for dealing with large cargo. Owing to the delay in making the terminal operational, the government had been losing crores of rupees every year as many pharma and apparel companies in Vizag and flower traders from Kadiyam in Rajahmundry depended on Hyderabad and Chennai airports for exports, director of AP Chambers of Commerce and Industry O Naresh Kumar said.
"Currently, more than 4,000 tonnes of pharma cargo from coastal AP region is being exported from Hyderabad. If we can provide facilities, exports are expected to rise to 3,000 crore per annum from Vizag alone," he added.
Brandix Apparel at Atchyutapuram SEZ has been depending on Chennai for its exports as well as imports of raw material from across the country and foreign nations. Speaking to TOI, company's India partner Dorai Swamy said if Vizag international cargo terminal started operations, it would give them a big boost as manpower, money and time would be saved.
"We have to deliver our orders within a week's time. But it has been getting delayed by 20 days as we depend on other states. We produce five lakh lingerie for Victoria's Secrets every day. If we do not send the products in time, the style goes out of vogue. This is fashion market and, in case of delays, the value of the model comes down," he said. According to sources, around 40 tonnes of finished products of Brandix would go for export from Chennai.
The AP Chamber of Commerce and Industry president, G Samba Siva Rao, said that apart from seafood, pharma and apparel exports, there were many sectors and much scope for growth in domestic and international cargo. He said even Vizianagaram had agriculture-based industries apart from food processing units. It also had iron alloy based industries. There were rich resources base of granite, cashew, rice, coconut, fruits, beach sand minerals in Srikakulam district.
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How do people feel about caches?
I've been logged in 3 hours, and according to logs, already raided 118 caches.
There are a raft of issues...
* Personally I think they "spawn" too frequently.
* Locked one's can't be opened if someone junks the key, and the mob doesn't reload the key.
* Mobs not responsible for the cache often guard it.
* The longer the game is up, the more I sense there tends to be.
* Are they even static? I note some named caches are closed and need picking, and other times not.
* In CG for instance, if a room has a cache, the room next to it, tends to have the same named cache.
Are there other issues that have been reported? What do people know about these things? I get the sense that things are not functioning well with them.
I can tell you, if you don't search for caches after killing a mob, your losing a lot of gold... and very frequently.

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It is with great pride that Canarian Legal Alliance shares with you yet another Silverpoint High Court victory.
The magistrates in the High Court N4 of Tenerife have declared our clients Silverpoint contract null and void on the basis that it did not include a tangible object. Under the Spanish Timeshare Law of 42/98 a timeshare must include a series of specific information such as a concrete apartment or an exact time of the year.
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With Star Wars: The Force Awakens due out later this year, the Star Wars news continues to hit the web.
Sony announced the PS4 bundle at D23 on Monday (August 17), revealing a Darth Vader-themed console that features an etching of the infamous villain. It will be released as part of two different bundles: one with the deluxe edition of Star Wars: Battlefront, and another with the "saga starter pack" edition of Disney Infinity 3.0.
The bundle also comes with download codes for four games that have been reworked to work on the console — including Super Star Wars, Racer Revenge, Jedi Starfighter, and Bounty Hunter.
Both bundles will release on November 17, with the Infinity bundle being a Walmart exclusive.


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Before I was able to drive, my Dad would always take me to school. I never took the bus in the morning, or carpooled with anyone else. I would estimate that up until the time I finally got my license, my dad dropped me off every single morning, and we both loved it. Some mornings, my dad would decide to stop at Starbucks, and send me in to get it for him, and I still remember his order today. A grande, non-fat, no whip moca. He would always say it was necessary for him to wake up and have a productive morning and day. Now that I am a freshman at Penn State, I notice how many people drink coffee. I did not know coffee was so crucial to so many people being productive. The line outside the HUB is always incredibly long, and every dorm on my floor expect for one has a Keurig, or a coffee maker.
Personally, I have not hopped on the daily routine of drinking coffee in the morning. No matter how hard my room mate tries, I always deny the energy and plan on dragging that out for as long as I possibly can. As I was trying to brainstorm blog topics, I saw my room mate drinking coffee at 10 o'clock at night while doing homework. It made me wonder if drinking coffee daily could help or harm a person's daily life.
We all knew that coffee is addictive, and can be unhealthy if consumed multiple times a day, but would it help me do better on Andrew's tests? According to Harvard School of Public Health, 54 percent of Americans over the age of 18 drink on average 3.1 cups a day, and spend $2.45 per cup. Jen Saunders, a writer for Our Everyday Life, writes that a study was published in the Nutrition Journal saying 51 percent of 496 college students used coffee or other beverages containing caffeine to help them study for last minute test preparation. John Wiley and Sons came to the conclusion that coffee gave the students increased alertness and improved cognitive responses.
Of course, coffee is not all good for you. Without knowing your limits, coffee can also have adverse affects on daily performance or health. A student or person may have an extreme sense of alertness or focus after drinking coffee, but this feeling does not last. The brain and body can only function at a higher level for a certain amount of time. After this rush is over, a student can feel tired or have a lack of motivation to do anything.
In my opinion there are clear positives and negatives to coffee. The only way to keep it beneficial to a person's daily life is with clear understanding of one's limitations. Over consumption of coffee clearly leads to addiction or a drop in motivation to get work done. If used correctly, coffee could be a great way to jump start my morning and help me battle through tough tests. This is a link as to why college students need coffee to survive.
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It is difficult to discriminate various types of medicines inside the kit.
Is the medicine for stomachache or headache?
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hungry ghosts, augutsy: im going to post some weird "art"….
im going to post some weird "art" websites i know of
superbad.com (the classic, vaguely unnerving, no popups, perhaps mild epilepsy warning for some screens)
http://mouchette.org/(just discovered this …
The Babadook
Has anyone here ever gone on that mouchette suicide website when they were a teen? That used to creep me out. I think most people (like me) stumbled upon it when googling the best way to kill yourself…
shsl genocider/m0nsun.tumblr.com
A very strange website with some dark and unsettling turns. : creepy (mouchette.org)
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When Brad Womack first hit the screens in the eleventh season of ABC's reality TV series, The Bachelor, it was the start of a new phase in the life the Atlanta-born entrepreneur and bar owner. What began as a short trial became the highlight of his career and shot him into national fame. Perhaps due to his real-life bachelor status, Womack reappeared in the fifteenth season of the series and from the fame and popularity he's earned so far, we hope to see him featured in many more TV series and even films. Let's tell you more about the Brad Womack you thought you knew.
Biography of Brad Womack
Brad Womack was born—Stephen Bradley Womack—in Atlanta, Georgia on November 10, 1972; to parents, Steve and Pamela Womack. Brad, alongside his twin brother, Chad, and older brother, Wesley Womack spent the most part of their childhood in Atlanta. However, they soon moved southwest to Livingston, Texas when their parents got separated in 1984. Brad was only twelve at the time. He attended high school in Texas and according to him, faced the numerous challenges associated with being raised by a single parent. When he clocked eighteen, Brad Womack went to Texas State University-San Marcos, but dropped out a year later and began working in several oil fields. The reason for the sudden change isn't clear but sources state financial constraints.
He would spend the ensuing eight years scurrying the oil fields of Texas, Louisiana, North Dakota, and California. He later joined his twin brother, Chad, in bartending and after eight months, Brad Womack opened his first drinking business in 2001. Since then, he has built an enviable line of businesses across the united states, opening more and more restaurants and bars across the country.
Brad Womack came into the limelight in September of 2007 when he first appeared as the bachelor in the ABC reality TV show The Bachelor. So far, he's appeared twice; first in the eleventh season and then later in season 15. While on the show, Womack was reputed to be the only Bachelor in the history of the show to reject both finalists— Deanna Pappas and Jenni Croft—in the finals.
He was considered the "most hateful" Bachelor on the show. But that description seems to be going to another Bachelor, Juan Pablo. Brad Womack has also been on several talk shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ellen: The Ellen Degeneres Show, Live! With Kelly and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. More so, he was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for TV Male Reality Star.
Girlfriend and Relationship Status
Fans wished Brad Womack's shots at nuptial bliss were as successful as the businesses he runs. The handsome bachelor has been in and out several relationships but has been unable to find true, lasting love. Sources believe that he dated Pappas Stagliano back in 2007, had a fling with reality TV personality Chantal O'Brien back in 2010, and began a relationship with former The Bachelor contestant, Ashlee Frazier, in 2013.
But two years before that, he'd proposed to Emily Maynard, a single mother; broke up with her while the show was still airing and then got back together towards the end of the show in March 2011. Although their love life looked quite promising, the union soon caved to pressure and they got separated. At the moment, it's not clear what Brad Womack is up to. There are no sources stating if he's been married or had any kids in the past.
See Also: Joseph Sikora – Bio, Married, Wife, Twin Brother, Age, Height, Net Worth
Brad Womack's Net Worth
Sources reveal Brad Womack's net worth to be over $500 thousand most of which came from his bar-tending and restaurant business. There are however no specifics about his annual salary. Plus, we have no information regarding his investment portfolio or pieces of property he owns at the moment. What's no secret, however, is his comfortable lifestyle. Fuelled by his blooming businesses.
Height and Body Measurement
Brad Womack has maintained an average build standing at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 meters). He has brown hair and blue eyes. As of this writing, we have no specifics on his weight, shoe size, waist, biceps and chest measurements.


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Eager loading with EF To Do Eager loading use Projections (for e.g. :
1: var custWithAddresses = from c in context.Contacts
2: where c.LastName == "Gupta"
3: select new {c, c.Addresses}
or use Include Query Builder Methods (Include("Addresses"))
1: from c in context.Contacts.Include("Addresses")
2: select c;
Constraints on using Query Builder methods with LINQToEntities:
If the LINQ query uses Joins then Include() Query Builder method will be ignored, use Nested LINQ Queries instead.
If the query does projections then Include() Query Builder method will be ignored
Use Address.ContactReference.Load() OR Contact.Addresses.Load() if you need to Deferred Load Specific Entity – This will result in extra round trips to the database
Only LINQToEntities queries can return anonymous types (during projection)... when using EntitySQL to return projections they always return a IEnumerable<DBDataRecord>
QueryBuilder methods like Include(), Where("it.LastName == "Gupta") etc can only be added to ObjectQuery<>. you cannot append QueryBuilder methods to IQueryable<>. Conversely Any Linq Query method can be added to Query Builder methods (since ObjectQuery Implements IQueryable<T> interface).
If you need to append a Query Builder Method (other than Include) after a LINQ method then cast the IQueryable<Contact> to ObjectQuery<Contact> and then append the Query Builder method to it
Query Builder methods are Select, Where, Include Methods which use Entity SQL as parameters e.g. "it.StartDate, it.EndDate"
When Query Builder methods do projection then they return ObjectQuery<DBDataRecord>, thus to iterate over this collection use contact.Item["Name"].ToString()
When Linq To Entities methods do projection, they return collection of anonymous types --- thus the collection is strongly typed and supports Intellisense
EF Object Context can track changes only on Entities, not on Anonymous types.
If you use a Defining Query for a EntitySet then the EntitySet becomes readonly since a Defining Query is the same as a View (which is treated as a ReadOnly by default). However if you want to use this EntitySet for insert/update/deletes then we need to map stored procs (as created in the DB) to the insert/update/delete functions of the Entity in the Designer
You can use either Execute method or ToList() method to bind data to datasources/bindingsources
If you use the Execute() Method then remember that you can traverse through the ObjectResult<> collection (returned by Execute) only ONCE.
In WPF use ObservableCollection to bind to data sources , for keeping track of changes and letting EF send updates to the DB automatically.
Use Extension Methods to add logic to Entities. For e.g. create extension methods for the EntityObject class.
Create a method in ObjectContext Partial class and pass the entity as a parameter, then call this method as desired from within each entity.
DefiningQueries and Stored Procedures:
For Custom Entities, one can use DefiningQuery (option1) or Stored Procedures (option2). Thus the Custom Entity Collection will be populated using the DefiningQuery (of the EntitySet) or the Sproc. If you use Sproc to populate the EntityCollection then the query execution is immediate and this execution happens on the Server side and any filters applied will be applied in the Client App.
If we use a DefiningQuery then these queries are composable, meaning the filters (if applied to the entityset) will all be sent together as a single query to the DB, returning only filtered results.
Steps for mapping sproc results to a non-existing Entity :
If the sproc returns results that cannot be mapped to existing entity, then we first create the Entity/EntitySet in the CSDL using Designer, then create a dummy Entity/EntitySet using XML in the SSDL. When creating a EntitySet in the SSDL for this dummy entity, use a TSQL that does not return any results, but does return the relevant columns
e.g. select ContactID, FirstName, LastName from dbo.Contact where 1=2
Also insure that the Entity created in the SSDL uses the SQL DataTypes and not .NET DataTypes.
If you are unable to open the EDMX file in the designer then note the Errors ... they will give precise info on what is wrong.
The Third option is to simply create a Native Query in the SSDL using
1: <Function Name="PaymentsforContact" IsComposable="false">
2: <CommandText>
3: SELECT Payments.PaymentDate, Payments.Amount,
4: Reservations.ReservationDate, Contact.FirstName,
5: Contact.LastName, Events.StartDate, Events.EndDate,
6: Locations.LocationName
7: FROM Payments INNER JOIN
8: Reservations ON Payments.ReservationID =
9: Reservations.ReservationID INNER JOIN
10: Contact ON Reservations.ContactID = Contact.ContactID
11: INNER JOIN Events ON Reservations.EventID = Events.EventID
12: INNER JOIN Locations ON Events.LocationID =
13: Locations.LocationID
14: WHERE Contact.ContactID=@ContactID
15: </CommandText>
16: <Parameter Name="ContactID" Type="int" Mode="In"/>
17: </Function>
Now you can create a FunctionImport for the PaymentsforContact function and map it to a existing Entity. This is a quick way to get a custom Entity which is regular Entity with renamed columns or additional columns (which are computed columns). The disadvantage to using this is that It will return all the rows from the Defining query and any filter (if defined) will be applied only at the Client side (after getting all the rows from DB). If you use DefiningQuery instead then we can use that as a Composable Query.
The Fourth option (for mapping a READ stored proc results to a non-existent Entity) is to create a View in the Database which returns all the fields that the sproc also returns, then update the Model so that the model contains this View as a Entity. Then map the Read Sproc to this View Entity. The other option would be to simply create the View and remove the sproc altogether.
To Execute a SProc that does not return a entity, use a EntityCommand to execute that proc. You cannot call a sproc FunctionImport that does not return Entities From Code, the only way is to use SSDL function calls using EntityCommand. This changes with EntityFramework Version 4 where you can return Scalar Types, Complex Types, Entities or NonQuery
Using SQL UDF's with EntityFrameworkv1:
UDF when created as a Function in SSDL, we need to set the Name & IsComposable properties for the Function element.
IsComposable is always false for Sprocs, for UDF's set this to true.
You cannot call UDF "Function" from within code since you cannot import a UDF Function into the CSDL Model (with Version 1 of EF). only stored procedures can be imported (since IsComposable for sprocs is "false") and then mapped to a entity.
These Functions (created using TSQL UDFs) can be called using EntitySQL like the following:
1: var esql = "select TREAT(c as BAGA.Customer).WeightPounds," +
2: "BAModel.Store.ufnLBtoKG(TREAT(c as BAGA.Customer).WeightPounds) " +
3: "from BAEntities.Contacts AS c where c is of(BAGA.Customer)"
4: Dim query == context.CreateQuery<DbDataRecord>(esql);
5: var weightList = query.ToList();
Then there is the Table per Hierarchy Inheritance..... where different types are created based on a condition (similar applying a condition to filter a Entity to contain filtered records)... the difference being that the filter condition populates a new Entity Type (derived from the base Entity). In the BreakAway sample the example is Lodging Entity which is a Abstract Entity and Then Resort and NonResort Entities which derive from Lodging Entity and records are filtered based on the value of the Resort Boolean field
Then there is Table per Concrete Type Hierarchy where we create a concrete Entity for each table in the database. In the BreakAway sample there is a entity for the Reservation table and another Entity for the OldReservation table even though both the table contain the same number of fields. The OldReservation Entity can then inherit from the Reservation Entity and configure the OldReservation Entity to remove all Scalar Properties from the Entity (since it inherits the properties from Reservation and filters based on ReservationDate field)
Complex Types (Complex Properties)
Entities in EF can also contain Complex Properties (in addition to Scalar Properties) and these Complex Properties reference a ComplexType (not a EntityType)
DropdownList, ListBox, RadioButtonList, CheckboxList, Bulletedlist are examples of List server controls (not data bound controls) these controls cannot use Complex properties during databinding, they need Scalar Properties.
So if a Entity contains Complex properties and you need to bind those to list server controls then use projections to return Scalar properties and bind them to the control (the disadvantage is that projected collections are not tracked by the Object Context and hence cannot persist changes to the projected collections bound to controls)
ObjectDataSource and EntityDataSource do account for Complex properties and one can bind entities with Complex Properties to Data Source controls and they will be tracked for changes... with no additional plumbing needed to persist changes to these collections bound to controls
So DataBound controls like GridView, FormView need to use EntityDataSource or ObjectDataSource as a datasource for entities that contain Complex properties so that changes to the datasource done using the GridView can be persisted to the DB (enabling the controls for updates)....if you cannot use the EntityDataSource you need to flatten the ComplexType Properties using projections
With EF Version 4 ComplexTypes are supported by the Designer and can add/remove/compose Complex Types directly using the Designer
Conditional Mapping ... is like Table per Hierarchy Inheritance where Entities inherit from a base class and then used conditions to populate the EntitySet (called conditional Mapping). Conditional Mapping has limitations since you can only use =, is null and IS NOT NULL Conditions to do conditional mapping.
If you need more operators for filtering/mapping conditionally then use QueryView(or possibly Defining Query) to create a readonly entity.
QueryView are readonly by default... the EntitySet created by the QueryView is enabled for change tracking by the ObjectContext, however the ObjectContext cannot create insert/update/delete TSQL statements for these Entities when SaveChanges is called since it is QueryView. One way to get around this limitation is to map stored procedures for the insert/update/delete operations in the Designer.
Difference between QueryView and Defining Query :
QueryView is defined in the (MSL) Mapping File/section of the EDM XML, whereas the DefiningQuery is defined in the store schema (SSDL). QueryView is written using Entity SQL and is this database agnostic and can be used against any database/Data Layer. DefiningQuery is written using Database Lanaguage i.e. TSQL or PSQL thus you have more control.
Model Functions that are defined in the Conceptual layer are also written using ESQL. This ESQL however runs the query against the Conceptual Model EntitySets and returns Conceptual Model Entity, whereas the QueryView ESQL runs the query against the Store Model EntitySets and returns Conceptual Model Entity.
An Example of Query View is :
1: <EntitySetMapping Name="Staffs">
2: <QueryView>
3: select value
4: case
5: when (i.StaffId is not null) then
6: EFRecipesModel.Instructor(s.StaffId,s.Name,i.InstructorId,i.Salary)
7: when (p.StaffId is not null) then
8: EFRecipesModel.Principal(s.StaffId,s.Name,p.PrincipalId,p.Salary,p.Bonus)
10: from EFRecipesModelStoreContainer.Staff as s
11: left join EFRecipesModelStoreContainer.Instructor as i
12: on s.StaffId = i.StaffId
13: left join EFRecipesModelStoreContainer.Principal as p
14: on s.StaffId = p.StaffId
15: </QueryView>
16: </EntitySetMapping>
Note here that in the "SELECT Entity FROM TABLE" the table is "EFRecipesModelStoreContainer.Staff" which is a SSDL based EntitySet and the ESQL returns "EFRecipesModel.Instructor" which is a Conceptual Model Entity. (Here EFRecipesModelStoreContainer is the SSDL EntityContainer)
An Example of Model Function is :
1: <Function Name="AverageUnitPrice" ReturnType="Edm.Decimal">
2: <Parameter Name="category" Type="EFRecipesModel.Category" />
3: <DefiningExpression>
4: ANYELEMENT(Select VALUE Avg(p.UnitPrice)
5: from EFRecipesEntities.Products as p where p.Category == category
6: group by p.Category.CategoryName
7: )
8: </DefiningExpression>
9: </Function>
Note here that in the pattern "SELECT Entity FROM TABLE", the table is a Conceptual Model EntitySet "EFRecipesEntities.Products" and that the ESQL returns a Conceptual Model Entity "EFRecipesModel.Product". (Here EFRecipesEntities is the CSDL EntityContainer) .
Using this Model function from C# code is straight forward. You can call the Model function using EntitySQL using the following for e.g :
1: string eSQL = "SELECT c.CategoryName,
2: EFRecipesModel.AverageUnitPrice(c) as AveragePrice
3: FROM EFRecipesEntities.Categories as c";
5: var cats = context.CreateQuery<DbDataRecord>(eSQL);
6: foreach (var cat in cats)
7: {
8: Console.WriteLine("{0}...{1}", cat[0], ((decimal)cat[1]).ToString("C"));
9: }
Note that when using EntitySQL, if you do projection and return custom shaped results as shown above then we HAVE to use DbDataRecord to iterate over the results (as shown above. However if the EntitySQL returns complete entities then we can return Entities using the context.CreateQuery<> method as shown below:
1: string eSQL = "SELECT value c FROM EFRecipesEntities.Categories as c";
2: var cats = context.CreateQuery<Category>(eSQL);
3: foreach (var cat in cats)
4: {
5: Console.WriteLine("{0}...{1}", cat.CategoryName, cat.CategoryId);
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Verification of Conformity (VoC) Programs are systems imposed by governments to ensure that imported products meet the required quality and safety standards of the importing country.
These precautions are taken to verify and confirm that the goods do not represent a risk for the health and safety of the population, or the environment.
The VOC Programme in Nigeria has been in place for years and offers many benefits to both the Government and its citizens, i.e. consumers and importers. The top 10 of which are:
- The organization and regulation of the import system, ensuring that all importers conform to standards.
- Protection of Nigerian consumers from unsafe and substandard products by increasing the quality of products on the market.
- Better value-for-money for consumers in terms of quality of services and products.
- Better tracking and monitoring of goods imported into Nigeria.
- The creation of an Exporter, Importer and Manufacturer updated database.
- Supporting the importer to prevent seizure of their goods by ensuring conformance to the correct standards.
- Assisting in curbing trade deals with fraudulent importers.
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(Application no. 7759/77)
6 May 1981
In the Buchholz case,
The European Court of Human Rights, sitting, in accordance with Article 43 (art. 43) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") and the relevant provisions of the Rules of Court, as a Chamber composed of the following judges:
Mr. G. WIARDA, President,
Mr. H. MOSLER,
Mr. THÓR VILHJÁLMSSON,
Mr. W. GANSHOF VAN DER MEERSCH,
Mrs. D. BINDSCHEDLER-ROBERT,
Mr. F. MATSCHER,
Mr. E. GARCIA DE ENTERRIA,
and also Mr. M.-A. EISSEN, Registrar, and Mr. H. PETZOLD, Deputy Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 28 January and 22 April 1981,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the last-mentioned date:
1. The Buchholz case was referred to the Court by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany ("the Government"). The case originated in an application against that State lodged with the European Commission of Human Rights ("the Commission") on 18 December 1976 under Article 25 (art. 25) of the Convention by a German national, Mr. Walter Buchholz.
2. The Government's application, which referred to Article 48 (art. 48) of the Convention, was lodged with the registry of the Court on 3 October 1980, within the period of three months laid down by Articles 32 par. 1 and 47 (art. 32-1, art. 47). The purpose of the application is to submit the case to the Court and invite it to find that there has been no breach of the Convention.
3. On 4 October, the Registrar received from the Secretary to the Commission forty copies of the latter's report.
4. The Chamber of seven judges to be constituted included, as ex officio members, Mr. H. Mosler, the elected judge of German nationality (Article 43 of the Convention) (art. 43), and Mr. G. Balladore Pallieri, the President of the Court (Rule 21 par. 3) (b) of the Rules of Court). On 4 October, the President drew by lot, in the presence of the Registrar, the names of the five other members, namely Mr. Thór Vilhjálmsson, Mr. W. Ganshof van der Meersch, Mrs. D. Bindschedler-Robert, Mr. F. Matscher and Mr. E. García de Enterría (Article 43 in fine of the Convention and Rule 21 par. 4) (art. 43).
5. Mr. Balladore Pallieri assumed the office of President of the Chamber (Rule 21 par. 5). He ascertained, through the Deputy Registrar, the views of the Agent of the Government and the President of the Commission regarding the procedure to be followed. On 4 October, he directed that the Agent should have until 5 December to file a memorial and that the Delegates of the Commission should be entitled to file a memorial in reply within two months from the date of the transmission of the Government's memorial to them by the Registrar.
6. On 9 October, the Secretary to the Commission informed the Registrar that the Commission had appointed Mr. Gaukur Jörundsson as its Delegate.
7. The Government's memorial was received at the registry on 5 December. On 15 December, the Secretary to the Commission advised the Registrar that the Delegate would present his observations at the hearings.
8. After consulting, through the Deputy Registrar, the Agent of the Government and the Delegate of the Commission, Mr. Wiarda, the Vice-President of the Court, who had replaced Mr. Balladore Pallieri following the latter's death (Rule 21 par. 3 (b) and 5), directed on 15 December that the oral hearings should open on 27 January 1981.
9. On 22 January 1981, he requested the Commission to produce certain documents to the Court; these documents were filed by the Commission on 27 January and 6 February.
10. The oral hearings were held in public at the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg, on 27 January. Immediately before their opening, the Chamber had held a preparatory meeting; it had authorised the Agent and counsel of the Government and the person assisting the Commission's Delegate to use the German language (Rule 27 par. 2 and 3).
There appeared before the Court:
- for the Government:
Mrs. I. MAIER, Ministerialdirigentin
at the Federal Ministry of Justice, Agent.
Mr. H. STÖCKER, Regierungsdirektor
at the Federal Ministry of Justice,
Mr. M. LORENZ, Regierungsdirektor
at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Mr. H. WEGENER, Oberregierungsrat
at the Department of Labour and Social Affairs of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Advisers;
- for the Commission:
Mr. GAUKUR JÖRUNDSSON, Delegate,
Mr. K. SOJKA, the applicant's lawyer
before the Commission, assisting the Delegate under Rule
29 par. 1, second sentence, of the Rules of Court.
The Court heard addresses by Mrs. Maier for the Government and by Mr. Gaukur Jörundsson and Mr. Sojka for the Commission, as well as their replies to questions put by the Court. At the hearings, the Agent of the Government made several documents available to the Court.
11. On 6 February, the Agent of the Government and the applicant's lawyer supplemented in writing their answers to certain questions put to them at the hearings; on 19 February, Mrs. Maier filed observations relating to the letter received from Mr. Sojka in this connection.
12. Mr. Buchholz was born in 1918 and lives in Hamburg. From February 1949 onwards he worked for the dry-cleaning firm of J. H. Dependorf KG; he was mainly employed as a driver until the end of 1963 and thereafter as, in particular, controller of branch establishments. On 28 June 1974, he was given notice that he was dismissed with effect from 31 December of the same year as a result of rationalisation measures.
He took proceedings before the appropriate courts contesting the lawfulness of this notice; in his submission, those courts did not determine his case within "a reasonable time" as required by Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) of the Convention.
1. Proceedings before the labour courts
(a) The Hamburg Labour Court (Arbeitsgericht)
13. On 10 July 1974, the applicant commenced an action before the Hamburg Labour Court claiming that his dismissal was "socially unjustified" ("sozial ungerechtfertigt") within the meaning of section 1 of the Unfair Dismissal Act (Kündigungsschutzgesetz). The other party ("the defendants") served a defence on 25 July, one day before the expiry of the time-limit granted for this purpose by the Labour Court.
14. At the first hearing on 16 August, Mr. Buchholz's lawyer submitted new written pleadings. The Labour Court thereupon allowed an application by the defendants for time to reply and adjourned the case until 4 October.
15. In their written reply of 22 August, the defendants, as requested by the Labour Court, gave a detailed account of the reasons for the contested dismissal; they also described the economic situation of the firm and explained the rationalisation measures taken.
The applicant's lawyer appended to his counter-reply of 19 September a note written to him by his client. This note contained the charge that the managers of the Dependorf firm had "negligently squandered the millions (business and private assets) properly earned by Robert Dependorf" but had "personally secured to themselves such a safe position that these people are no longer interested in whether or not the Dependorf firm gets even deeper into the red".
These accusations prompted the defendants on 30 September to send the applicant two further notices of dismissal, an extraordinary notice (ausserordentliche Kündigung) effective forthwith and, as an alternative or precautionary (vorsorglich) measure, an ordinary notice (ordentliche Kündigung) with effect from 31 March 1975. The extraordinary notice was based on Article 626 of the Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) which requires a "serious reason" for a dismissal of this kind and the giving of notice within two weeks from the moment when the employers had knowledge of the facts judged by them to constitute such a reason.
On 2 October, Mr. Buchholz's lawyer filed two further sets of written submissions dated 1 and 2 October respectively; appended to the former was a copy of the defendant's letter of 30 September; the latter extended the plaintiff's action to cover the two dismissal notices of 30 September.
16. At a hearing on 4 October 1974, the Labour Court adjourned the proceedings until 25 October as the defendants' lawyer had only received the applicant's latest written pleadings at that hearing.
On 14 October, the applicant's lawyer submitted another memorandum.
At the adjourned sitting on 25 October, the Labour Court, acting in accordance with the applicable legislation, proposed a friendly settlement, but the proposal was not accepted.
17. The Labour Court delivered judgment on 8 January 1975 immediately after hearing the final submissions of the parties. It held that neither the notice of 28 June 1974 nor the extraordinary notice of 30 September 1974 had terminated the applicant's contract, since the former was "socially unjustified" within the meaning of section 1 of the Unfair Dismissal Act and the latter was invalid for lack of a "serious reason" as required by Article 626 of the Civil Code. The Court also rejected an alternative request by the defendants for discharge (Auflösungsantrag) of the contract of employment in pursuance of section 7 of the Unfair Dismissal Act. It ordered the defendants to pay Mr. Buchholz DM 5,700 arrears of wages but dismissed the claim for future salary.
The judgment was notified in writing to the parties on 25 February 1975.
(b) The Hamburg Labour Court of Appeal (Landesarbeitsgericht)
18. The defendants appealed to the Hamburg Labour Court of Appeal on 13 March 1975. In their submission, the accusations made by Mr. Buchholz constituted a "serious reason" warranting the extraordinary notice of 30 September 1974; the two ordinary notices of 28 June and 30 September 1974 were likewise valid, the former being "socially justified" for pressing reasons connected with the running of the business. They called on the Court to overrule the judgment appealed from and to dismiss the plaintiff's action or, in the alternative, to discharge the contract of employment existing between the two parties.
The applicant in turn lodged a cross-appeal (Anschlussberufung) on 25 March, seeking payment of arrears of wages for the first three months of 1975.
19. The parties then filed written pleadings dated 2 April and 15 May 1975 (the defendants) and 22 April (Mr. Buchholz). The applicant maintained his accusations against the managers of the firm and asked the Court of Appeal to call for an expert's opinion in order to corroborate the allegations made.
20. In the course of this written procedure both the applicant and the defendants had requested the Court of Appeal not to hold sittings during certain periods, namely from 25 May to 5 June for the applicant and from 11 April to 2 May and from 6 to 11 June for the defendants.
21. Taking due note of this, the Court of Appeal on 16 May 1975 set the case down for hearing on 22 July. On that date, the Court examined, amongst other matters, the exact circumstances surrounding the tendering in evidence of the applicant's accusations which had been appended to his lawyer's written pleading of 19 September 1974 (see paragraph 15 above). When questioned whether he had intended use to be made of these accusations in the lawsuit, he stated that he had relied on the judgment of his lawyer. The Court also raised the possibility of employing Mr. Buchholz in some other capacity; it directed the defendants to submit within one month a chart setting out the firm's commercial staff structure, indicating for each post whether it was suitable for the applicant and, if not, the reason why.
The applicant was given one month to reply.
22. The defendants filed the chart, with accompanying explanations, on 31 July; then, on 6 August, they replied to a written pleading from Mr. Buchholz which, though presented on 16 July, had been communicated to them after the hearing of 22 July.
On 20 August 1975, the applicant put forward a proposal for a friendly settlement, but this was rejected by the defendants on 19 September. By letter of 3 October, Mr. Buchholz's lawyer filed a memorandum, dated 28 September, containing comments by his client and asked the Court to set the case down for an early hearing, thereby renewing a request he had already made on 18 September, one day before the defendants had refused the offer of friendly settlement. He stated, amongst other things, that "the disproportionately long state of suspense [had] become physically and psychologically unbearable" for Mr. Buchholz.
On 9 October, the Court of Appeal decided to hold a hearing on 19 March 1976 and transmitted to the defendants the above mentioned written pleadings of 3 October.
23. On 12 November 1975, the applicant's lawyer addressed to the Parliament (Bürgerschaft) of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg a petition seeking measures to expedite proceedings before the labour courts.
Early in 1976, as an apparent sequel to this petition and following an increase in the number of judicial posts (see paragraph 39 below), the Court of Appeal was able to establish a Sixth Chamber. Almost 50 per cent of the cases pending before the Third Chamber were referred to the new Chamber, although the former continued to deal with the Buchholz action.
The Parliament advised the applicant in reply on 5 May 1976 that the authorities had immediately taken the necessary steps to ease the workload of the labour courts.
24. The legal and factual questions to be decided were debated by the two parties at the hearing held on 19 March 1976. At the close of the sitting, the Court of Appeal made an order setting out the various points in issue and their possible implications as seen by the Court; it then proposed a settlement whereby the contract of employment would be considered as having terminated on 31 December 1974 and the defendants would pay the applicant a lump sum of DM 34,200.
The Court called on the parties to state their views by 30 April.
25. By memorandum of 7 April, the defendants refused the settlement proposal; they referred to the "undisputed" fact that the two notices of 30 September 1974 had been served on the applicant on the same day.
For his part, Mr. Buchholz's lawyer, in a written statement of 8 April in which he paid tribute to the Court of Appeal for its "thorough and prudent examination of the case", declined to accept the suggested settlement; he specified that he could only agree to such a solution if the contract were regarded as terminated on 31 December 1975.
In addition, on 28 April 1976 he filed a brief reply to the above-mentioned memorandum of 7 April. He contested the defendants' affirmations "insofar as they deviate[d] from the explanations" given by his client, but he did not however specifically deal with the matter of the date of receipt of the two notices of 30 September 1974. He added that he would be absent from 30 May to 18 June and requested the Court of Appeal to fix a hearing in May.
On 3 May, the Court of Appeal directed that the hearings should resume on 27 August and so advised the parties on 1 June.
26. At the hearing on 27 August 1976, Mr. Buchholz denied that he had actually received the two notices of 30 September on that day and asked the Court to question on his wife on this point, which was material for the purposes of Article 626 of the Civil Code (see paragraph 15 above). The Court acceded to this request. Mrs. Buchholz, who was present in the court-room, confirmed the statements of her husband; she asserted that the notices had been served between 5 and 7 October 1974.
The defendants contested this testimony and asked for the counter-evidence of four witnesses to be heard. The applicant objected to such a move on the ground that it would tend to protract the proceedings. The Court nevertheless decided that Mr. Buchholz, as well as the chief executive of the Dependorf firm and the four witnesses nominated by the defendants, should be heard on 11 January 1977. At the same time it invited the applicant, who had applied for free legal aid in the appeal proceedings, to supply the necessary certificate for that purpose.
27. The certificate was submitted under cover of a letter of 28 August from Mr. Buchholz's lawyer. Consequently, on 29 September the Court granted free legal aid for the applicant's defence against the main appeal; it reserved its decision as regards his cross-appeal (see paragraph 31 below).
28. Earlier, on 21 September 1976, the applicant had challenged the above-mentioned decision of 27 August before the Federal Constitutional Court. Complaining of the duration of the litigation and relying on Articles 2, 3, 12 and 20 of the Basic Law as well as Article 6 (art. 6) of the Convention, he had sought from the Constitutional Court an order requiring the Court of Appeal to bring its consideration of the matter to an immediate close.
The case-file was sent to the Federal Constitutional Court which, sitting as a panel of three judges (section 93 (a) of the Federal Constitutional Court Act, Bundesverfassungsgerichtsgesetz), gave judgment on 2 November. The Court refused leave for the constitutional application to proceed: even supposing the application to be admissible, it did not offer sufficient prospects of success since there was nothing in the evidence to show that the Court of Appeal had protracted the proceedings; having regard to the extreme complexity of the facts of the case, the length of the lawsuit had been caused primarily by the applicant who had continuously supplemented his submissions and called for the taking of further evidence.
29. The presiding judge of the Third Chamber of the Labour Court of Appeal, which was dealing with the applicant's case, retired on 19 November.
30. On 11 January 1977, the Court of Appeal heard four witnesses in connection with the date of receipt of the dismissal notices. It reserved until 28 January its decision whether, despite the objections of Mr. Buchholz's lawyer, it should hear evidence from an additional witness nominated by the defendants and from Mr. Lentfer, the chief executive of the Dependorf firm.
31. On 28 January, the Court of Appeal granted the applicant free legal aid for his cross-appeal (see paragraph 27 above) and directed that Mr. Lentfer be called to give evidence on 22 March.
By letter of 31 January, the defendants' lawyer, pleading a prior commitment, asked for adjournment of the hearing of Mr. Lentfer; he further specified that both he and Mr. Lentfer would be on leave from 15 April until 4 May. The Court of Appeal granted this request on 2 February and postponed the hearing until 6 May.
The applicant wrote on 5 February to the Secretary to the Commission - his petition to the Commission having been lodged on 18 December 1976 - to complain of this decision, but according to the Government there is no trace in the record of the case of his having entered any such objection before the Court of Appeal.
32. On 6 May, the representatives of both parties declared that the two disputed dismissal notices had indeed been received by Mr. Buchholz on 30 September 1974.
On 13 May, the Court of Appeal ordered that an expert opinion should be obtained on the question whether or not the applicant's accusations against the managers of the Dependorf firm were justified (see paragraph 15 above). The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, on being so requested, nominated an expert on 14 June; after hearing the parties, the Court appointed the expert on 30 June.
The expert's report was filed on 2 December 1977; the Court communicated it to the applicant and the defendants for comment by 5 January 1978.
33. The last hearing was held on 3 February. The parties made their final submissions, following which the Labour Court of Appeal delivered its judgment. It allowed the defendants' appeal and dismissed the applicant's cross-appeal, awarding the costs of the proceedings against him.
The Court of Appeal held that the extraordinary notice of 30 September 1974 was valid for the following reasons. The charges made by the applicant constituted a serious reason for dismissal within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Article 626 of the Civil Code and the dismissal notice had been served within the period of two weeks laid down by paragraph 2 of that Article. The thorough and convincing explanations furnished by the expert made it clear that Mr. Buchholz's accusations were without foundation (haltlos): apart from being extremely defamatory, they were inappropriate and quite unnecessary for his cause of action contesting the ordinary notice of 28 June 1974 (see paragraph 15 above).
The judgment was notified in writing to the parties on 5 April.
(c) The Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht)
34. With a view to bringing a petition for a review on a point of law (Revision), Mr. Buchholz applied on 13 April to the Federal Labour Court for free legal aid; his application was granted on 12 September.
On 20 September, he asked the Federal Court for leave to petition notwithstanding expiry of the legal time-limit; the Court gave leave on 10 October.
The petition which had been filed earlier on 22 September, was transmitted to the defendants who replied in writing on 29 December.
35. On 26 April 1979, the Federal Court, after hearing the parties, proposed a settlement whereby the contract of employment would be considered as having terminated on 31 December 1974 and the defendants would pay the applicant a lump sum of DM 24,000 in addition to the DM 5,700 already paid as arrears of wages in compliance with the Labour Court's judgment.
The proposal was rejected by the defendants; by judgment of the same day, the Federal Court dismissed the petition for review as unfounded.
2. Proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
36. On 10 May 1979, Mr. Buchholz challenged this decision before the Federal Constitutional Court alleging violation of several basic rights. He complained of the length of the proceedings before the various labour courts, citing this factor as the cause of the contested decision. He further criticised the Federal Labour Court for having terminated a lawsuit "which in normal circumstances should not have been terminated yet"; in view of his application to the Commission, so he contended, the Federal Labour Court had "clearly not wished to make the breach of the Convention more evident by continuing the proceedings". In addition, the applicant claimed that the judgment being challenged was unsustainable as far as its reasoning was concerned (sachlich unhaltbar) and constituted an unacceptable domestic sanction intended to punish him for having taken his case to the Commission.
On 19 July, the Constitutional Court refused leave for the constitutional application to proceed on the ground that it was inadmissible. The applicant had not, it was stated, identified with sufficient clarity any possible violation of his basic rights. In particular, his complaint regarding the length of the proceedings did not warrant a finding that the outcome of the action was incompatible with any of his basic rights; this was likewise true of his submission that the reasoning of the judgment being challenged did not bear examination.
As in 1976 (see paragraph 28 above), the Court had sat in judgment as a panel of three judges.
3. The applicant's situation after his dismissal
37. For a year after his dismissal, Mr. Buchholz was paid weekly unemployment benefits (Arbeitslosengeld) under the Promotion of Employment Act (Arbeitsförderungsgesetz), that is to say, DM 202.20 from 9 October to 31 December 1974, DM 228 from 1 January to 30 September 1975 and DM 250.80 until 7 October 1975. The Hamburg Employment Office (Arbeitsamt) refused, on 23 December 1975, to grant him unemployment welfare assistance (Arbeitslosenhilfe) thereafter on account of his wife's earnings. Since 1 August 1978, the applicant has been in receipt of a social security retirement pension (Sozialversicherungsrente), the amount of which – originally DM 1,462 per month - has been periodically adjusted.
38. According to the Government, from October 1974 onwards the Hamburg Employment Office endeavoured in vain to find the applicant some other employment, even offering financial help to potential employers.
4. Workload of the Labour Courts of Appeal between 1974 and 1976
39. As the result of an economic recession in the Federal Republic of Germany, the labour courts of appeal experienced a significant increase in their workload between 1974 and 1976. According to the statistics supplied by the Government at the request of the Court, the incidence of appeals from labour court judgments rose, as compared with the previous year, by 23.1 per cent in 1974, by 20.8 per cent in 1975 and by 9.7 per cent in 1976. In order to cope with this state of affairs, the relevant authorities increased the number of judicial posts by 9.6 per cent in 1974, by 12.5 per cent in 1975 and by 11.1 per cent in 1976. There were 17.3 per cent more cases dealt with in 1974, 27.5 per cent in 1975 and 13.4 per cent in 1976.
As regards the Hamburg Court of Appeal in particular, 689 appeals were entered in 1974, 758 in 1975, 786 in 1976 and 756 in 1977; 716 appeals were decided in 1974, 700 in 1975, 798 in 1976 and 788 in 1977. The average length of proceedings progressed from 2.88 months in 1974 to 3.20 months in 1975, but then fell to 2.98 months in 1976, 2.79 months in 1977 and 2.53 months in 1978. In this respect, the Hamburg Court of Appeal was more favoured than the labour courts of appeal of the other Länder where, nevertheless, a downward trend was also registered. Examination of the 255 cases decided in 1975 and 1976 by the Third Chamber, which dealt with the Buchholz appeal, showed, according to the Government, that 163 cases were disposed of after one hearing, 59 cases after two hearings, 23 cases after three hearings and 10 cases after four to six hearings.
40. Faced with the backlog of labour court business in the 1970's, the Government tabled in the legislative assemblies in 1978 a Bill designed, amongst other things, to expedite proceedings before the labour courts. The resultant Act entered into force on 1 July 1979.
41. In his application of 18 December 1976 to the Commission (no. 7759/77), Mr. Buchholz complained of the length of the proceedings before the German courts and alleged a breach of Articles 6 par. 1 and 8 (art. 6-1, art. 8) of the Convention. During the course of the proceedings on the merits, he also relied on Articles 3 and 12 (art. 3, art. 12).
42. On 7 December 1977, the Commission declared the application admissible.
In its report of 14 May 1980, the Commission expressed the opinion that the requirements of Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) had not been observed (seven votes to five), but that no issue arose under Articles 3, 8 or 12 (art. 3, art. 8, art. 12).
43. At the hearings on 27 January 1981, the Government made the following final submission, which had been indicated in their memorial of 5 December 1980:
"[We] request a finding that the Convention has not been violated in the instant case."
44. The applicant's complaint concerned the length of the proceedings he brought before the German courts. he invoked Articles 6 par. 1, 8, 3 and 12 (art. 6-1, art. 8, art. 3, art. 12) of the Convention.
1. The alleged breach of Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) of the Convention
45. The Commission came to the conclusion that there had been a breach of Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1), which provides:
"In the determination of his civil rights and obligations or of any criminal charge against him, everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law. ..."
The Government disagreed with this opinion.
46. One point has not been put in issue and the Court takes it for granted: the "right" being claimed by Mr, Buchholz was a "civil right" within the meaning of Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1). Accordingly, the sole question to be settled is whether or not the "reasonable time" was exceeded.
47. The Court must first specify the period to be taken into account.
Mr. Buchholz's application was directed against the proceedings carried on before the three levels of German labour courts from 10 July 1974 onwards (see paragraph 13 above) and subsequently before the Federal Constitutional Court.
The Commission considered that the latter set of proceedings was not relevant. It cited its established case-law to the effect that Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) did not apply to the Federal Constitutional Court when that Court, sitting as a panel of three judges, declared a constitutional application inadmissible; it also referred to a more recent decision holding that the very nature of the rights determined by a constitutional court rendered Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) inapplicable to the Federal Constitutional Court (see paragraph 93 of the report).
48. For the purposes of arriving at a decision on the matters complained of, it suffices to point out that the Constitutional Court was not called on to determine the dispute ("contestation") between Mr. Buchholz and his employers which had been before the labour courts; its ruling was not concerned with the right claimed by the plaintiff against the defendants (see paragraph 36 above, as compared with paragraphs 13 and 15). The proceedings subsequent to the judgment by the Federal Labour Court thus fall outside the ambit of Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1). There is no need to decide whether it might be otherwise in different circumstances.
The period to be examined under Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) therefore extends from 10 July 1974 (commencement of the action before the Labour Court; see paragraph 13 above) until 26 April 1979 (delivery of the Federal Labour Court's judgment; see paragraph 35 above); its overall duration is four years, nine months and sixteen days.
49. The reasonableness of the length of proceedings coming within the scope of Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) must be assessed in each case according to the particular circumstances. In respect of criminal matters, the Court has for this purpose had regard, inter alia, to the complexity of the case and to the conduct of both the applicant and the competent authorities (see the Neumeister judgment of 27 June 1968, Series A no. 8, pp. 42-43, par. 20-21, and the Ringeisen judgment of 16 July 1971, Series A no. 13, p. 45, par. 110). The Court has taken account of the same criteria, as well as the defendant's behaviour and what is at stake in the litigation for the plaintiff, in cases concerning proceedings brought before administrative courts in connection with civil rights (see the König judgment of 28 Juni 1978, Series A no. 27, pp. 34-40, par. 99, 102-105 and 107-111). It considers that it should adopt a similar approach in the present case. The Court would add that only delays attributable to the State may justify its finding, in appropriate instances, a failure to comply with the requirements of "reasonable time".
50. In the Federal Republic of Germany, as in many other States members of the Council of Europe, a criminal or administrative court is, it is true, responsible for the investigation and the conduct of the trial of an action (see the above-mentioned Neumeister judgment, pp. 42-43, par. 21, and the above-mentioned König judgment, pp. 34-39, par. 102-105, 107 and 109). In contrast, so the Government submitted, in the Federal Republic of Germany proceedings before the labour courts, as before all civil courts, are governed by the principle of the conduct of the litigation by the parties (Parteimaxime). In addition, German legislation encourages the friendly settlement of cases concerning employment (sections 54, 57, 64 and 72 of the Labour Courts Act, Arbeitsgerichtsgesetz); this factor was rightly adverted to by the Government.
Without minimising the importance of these differences, the Court considers, as did the Commission, that they do not dispense the judicial authorities from ensuring the trial of the action expeditiously as required by Article 6 (art. 6). The Court notes, moreover, that under the terms of section 9 of the Labour Courts Act the German labour courts at all levels of jurisdiction must expedite the proceedings.
51. The Government have drawn attention to the uncontested fact that as the result of an economic recession there was a significant increase in the volume of litigation in the field of employment, resulting in an abnormally heavy burden of business before the courts, including the Hamburg courts.
The Court points out that the Convention places a duty on the Contracting States to organise their legal systems so as to allow the courts to comply with the requirements of Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1), including that of trial within a "reasonable time". Nonetheless, a temporary backlog of business does not involve liability on the part of the Contracting States provided they have taken reasonably prompt remedial action to deal with an exceptional situation of this kind.
52. More than four years and nine months passed before the Federal Labour Court delivered judgment as the court of final instance. This lapse of time appears considerable for a case like this. Furthermore, what was at stake in the litigation was of great importance for Mr. Buchholz: what was involved was either reinstatement in his employment or an award of compensation in the event of the contract being terminated. Accordingly, the Court must examine, on the basis of the criteria and factors set out above, the course of the proceedings before each of the three courts which were in turn called on to deal with the case.
(a) The Hamburg Labour Court
53. The proceedings before the Hamburg Labour Court were commenced on 10 July 1974 and terminated on 8 January 1975 with a judgment which was notified in writing to the parties on 25 February. According to the statistics supplied by the Government, this lapse of time is above the average recorded in 1974 both for the Hamburg Court itself (3.5 months) and for the labour courts of the other Länder (2.6 months).
Before the Commission the applicant alleged that there had been several unnecessary hearings. He did not, however, furnish any details and the Court, bearing in mind that at this stage the case became more involved (see paragraph 55 below), does not find in this phase of the litigation, which lasted less than eight months, an excessive delay such as to infringe Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1).
(b) The Hamburg Labour Court of Appeal
54. The proceedings before the Hamburg Labour Court of Appeal, which were set in motion by the appeal entered by the defendants on 13 March 1975, culminated on 3 February 1978 in a judgment subsequently notified in writing to the parties on 5 April. These proceedings, up till delivery of judgment, therefore lasted two years, ten months and twenty-one days, which by far exceeds the average registered between 1975 and 1978 both for the Hamburg Court and for the corresponding courts in the other Länder (see paragraph 39 above).
The applicant accordingly concentrated his criticisms on this phase and the Commission likewise regarded it as crucial.
55. As regards the complexity of the case, the Government have rightly drawn attention to the fact that the issues were complicated when Mr. Buchholz's lawyer introduced, under cover of his written pleadings of 19 September 1974 to the Labour Court, the accusations made by his client against the managers of the defendant company (see paragraph 15 above) and again when his client denied on 27 August 1976 having received the two dismissal notices on 30 September 1974, an allegation which he subsequently admitted to be incorrect (see paragraphs 26 and 32 above). The first factor prompted the two dismissal notices, and the second a hearing of witnesses which, as matters turned out, proved to be pointless.
The Court finds that the task of the courts, in particular of the Court of Appeal, was rendered more difficult by both these factors, although in the Court's views the complexity of the case, taken on its own, cannot justify the length of the appeal proceedings.
56. Insofar as the behaviour of the applicant is concerned, it should be noted that in 1975 and 1976 his lawyer on two occasions asked the Court of Appeal not to hold hearings during certain periods totalling one month (see paragraphs 20 and 25 above). What is more, by asserting on 27 August 1976 that the two dismissal notices of 30 September 1974 had not been served on him on the same day, Mr. Buchholz caused a prolongation of more than eight months, during which the Court took evidence from the witnesses called by the two parties on the issue of the disputed date (see paragraphs 26, 30, 31 and 32 above). At paragraph 108 of its report, the Commission also cited as an additional cause of delay the constitutional application of 21 September 1976. However, as was pointed out by the applicant and concerned by the Government, the Court of Appeal had fixed the date of the hearing of 11 January 1977 one month before the lodging of the constitutional complaint, which thus could have had no effect whatsoever on this decision (see paragraphs 26 and 28 above).
It nevertheless remains true that the applicant to a large extent contributed to the length of the proceedings, notably by the way in which he chose to argue his case. On this point, the Court concurs with the Government and the Commission.
57. The defendants, for their part, also asked the Court of Appeal on three occasions between 1975 and 1977 not to hold hearings on certain dates, the total number of days involved being forty-five; the defendants were thereby responsible for protracting the litigation by about six weeks (see paragraphs 20 and 31 above). Furthermore, they waited a month before replying to the offer of friendly settlement made by the applicant on 20 August 1975 (see paragraph 22 above). Finally, they prolonged the procedure by asking for the taking of evidence from witnesses called by them in connection with the date of receipt of the dismissal notices of 30 September 1974 (see paragraphs 26 and 30 above).
In the circumstances of the particular case, however, the Court judges the first two periods of prolongation to be of no importance. The third in fact resulted from a new line of argument raised by the applicant, which the Dependorf firm, in the legitimate exercise of its own right of defence, countered by calling witnesses.
58. In the opinion of the Commission and in the submission of Mr. Buchholz, the principal cause of the length of the proceedings was to be found in the handling of the case by the Court of Appeal.
The applicant complained in particular of the pointlessness of several hearings, the over-long intervals between hearings, the lack of staff in the Court of Appeal and the delay in appointing an expert.
The Commission considered that the orders of 9 October 1975 and 27 August 1976 fixing the next hearings for 19 March 1976 and 11 January 1977 respectively (see paragraphs 22 and 26 above) were not compatible with the duty to conduct proceedings expeditiously. It further observed that the decision taken on 3 May 1976 not to hold a hearing until 27 August likewise entailed a loss of time of several months (see paragraph 25 above). In the Commission's view, in order to expedite the trial of the action the Court of Appeal ought in addition to have refused the request made by the Dependorf firm on 31 January 1977 for adjournment of the taking of evidence from a witness (see paragraphs 30 and 31 above).
59. Having regard to the general rule of German law requiring that, insofar as possible, proceedings of this category be dealt with in one hearing (sections 57 and 64 of the Labour Courts Act), the number of hearings (six) devoted to the case by the Court of Appeal would at first sight appear surprising. In this context as well, the statistics furnished by the Government are revealing, for they show that very few of the cases handled by the relevant Chamber of the Court of Appeal in 1975 and 1976 gave rise to more than three hearings (see paragraph 39 above).
Nevertheless, what occurred in the present instance resulted to a large extent from the way in which the applicant argued his case. When - at the third hearing, thus at an advanced stage of the procedure - Mr. Buchholz denied having received the two dismissal notices on 30 September 1974, the Court of Appeal, quite naturally felt obliged to hear the witnesses for the other party, failing which there was a risk of prejudicing the latter's right of defence. One cannot, as did the Commission, criticise the Court of Appeal for having neglected to discuss with the parties a document already filed which might perhaps have disclosed the exact date of receipt; for, confronted with the applicant's assertions which were corroborated the same day by his wife, the Court of Appeal could reasonably have deemed it necessary also to call the defendants' witnesses.
Neither can the Court of Appeal be criticised for not having ordered expert evidence at the outset of the proceedings. It is understandable that the Court of Appeal should have thought it worthwhile to endeavour to secure a friendly settlement despite the applicant's serious accusations against the managers of the Dependorf firm. Whether these accusations were well-founded thus became a subsidiary issue; the need to go into the matter only arose once the impossibility of settling the action was established. The fact that at the third hearing the applicant subsequently denied having been served with the two dismissal notices on 30 September 1974 explains why the Court of Appeal should again have postponed seeking expert evidence: it was necessary to await the outcome of the witnesses' testimony.
60. The Court attaches greater significance to certain delays, including those noted by the Commission, attributable to time-limits set by the Court of Appeal.
Firstly, there is the order of 9 October 1975 fixing the next hearing for 19 March 1976. In point of fact, during these five months the Court of Appeal was studying the case-file with a view to arranging a friendly settlement; thus, the proposal it made on 19 March came after an examination of the case which Mr. Buccholz, in paying tribute to the Court, described as "thorough" and "prudent". According to the Government, the Court of Appeal was, following the hearing on 9 October, expecting a reply - which in the event never materialised - by the defendants to the written pleading of 3 October. Without overlooking the difficulties involved in attempting to secure a friendly settlement, especially in view of the charges made by the applicant against the management of his former employers, the Court nonetheless finds cause for concern in the duration of this phase of the procedure, which was further extended by a five-week period of reply granted to the parties.
The same applies to the order of 3 May 1976 directing the next hearing to be held on 27 August despite the request of the applicant's lawyer who had suggested the month of May and informed the Court of Appeal of his unavoidable absence from 30 May to 18 June. According to the Government, Mr. Buchholz raised no objection to this order, but this does not mean that the Court of Appeal was thereby relieved of its responsibility.
The order of 27 August 1976 deferring the next hearing until 11 January 1977 prompts similar doubts even if it be accepted that his impending retirement might have led the presiding judge of the Third Chamber to fix a date allowing his successor to study the papers in the case.
The Commission was also right to criticise the order of 2 February 1977 postponing until 6 May, at the request of the defendants, the taking of witnesses' evidence which had been called for as early as 11 January. Mr. Buchholz does not seem to have entered any formal objection, but again this cannot discharge the court of Appeal of its responsibility.
Finally, it is difficult to understand why the judgment was not notified in writing to the parties until two months after its delivery.
61. Placing reliance on statistical evidence, the Government based their principal argument on the heavy workload which at the relevant time was facing the labour courts of appeal in the Federal Republic of Germany and, in particular, the Hamburg Labour Court of Appeal. In the Government's submission, the backlog of pending business prevented a more expeditious treatment of the Buchholz case. Whilst acknowledging that this state of affairs existed, the Commission was of the view that the remedial action taken was not sufficient to have secured the applicant a trial of his action within a reasonable time in accordance with Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) of the Convention.
The Court notes, however, that the number of judicial posts was increased as early as 1974, at a time when the volume of litigation was beginning to grow in the wake of the economic recession. The Hamburg Labour Court of Appeal thus succeeded in dealing with more appeals in 1976 and 1977 than in 1974 and 1975, whilst at the same time the average length of proceedings fell (see paragraph 39 above). Furthermore the Hamburg Court, being concerned at the great number of cases - including that of Mr. Buchholz - pending before the Third Chamber, established at the beginning of 1976 a Sixth Chamber to which were referred almost half of the actions in question (see paragraph 23 above). Finally, in order to expedite the business coming before the labour courts, the Government put forward a proposal for legislative reform which was adopted by the parliamentary assemblies in 1979 (see paragraph 40 above).
It naturally took some time for the effects of these various measures to be felt. Nevertheless, they demonstrate that the Government were fully conscious of their responsibilities in the matter. Accordingly, in order to determine whether Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) of the Convention has been violated, the Court must take into account the amount of work which was pending before the Hamburg Labour Court of Appeal during a period already found by the Court to be exceptional in character (see paragraph 51 above).
(c) The Federal Labour Court
62. The Federal Labour Court granted on 12 September 1978 Mr. Buchholz's application of 13 April for legal aid; his petition for a review on a point of law was filed with that Court on 22 September and dismissed by it on 26 April 1979. The total length of these proceedings was thus one year and thirteen days.
The applicant has not furnished details of his complaints as regards the Federal Court. When he challenged its decision in his constitutional application, his plea was not that there had been any specific delays but, on the contrary, that the proceedings had been terminated prematurely (see paragraph 36 above).
According to the Commission, the proceedings were not unjustifiably prolonged, either by Mr. Buchholz or by the defendants or by the Federal Labour Court. The Court perceives no sufficient reason for taking a different view.
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63. After the foregoing examination of the course of the three sets of proceedings in question, the Court is in a position to determine whether their total duration violated Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) of the Convention.
Although the progress of the second set of proceedings was extremely slow and although the Labour Court of Appeal had, in particular, on several occasions deferred its hearings for somewhat long periods, the duration of the litigation was also to a large extent the result of certain issues raised by Mr. Buchholz of his own accord, in respect of which he must bear the consequences. Neither can the Court overlook the fact that the delays at the Court of Appeal level occurred at a time of transition marked by a significant increase in the volume of litigation resulting from a deterioration in the general economic situation. Having assessed the material before it and taken notice of the authorities' efforts to expedite the conduct of business before the labour courts, the Court considers that, even when viewed cumulatively, the delays attributable to the competent courts did not exceed a reasonable time within the meaning of Article 6, par. 1 (art. 6-1).
2. The alleged violation of Articles 8, 3 and 12 of the Convention (art. 8, art. 3, art. 12)
64. The applicant also invoked Articles 8, 3 and 12 of the Convention (art. 8, art. 3, art. 12) contending that the length of the proceedings had been the source of serious financial and personal difficulties for him.
The Government argued that the true cause of those difficulties was Mr. Buchholz's dismissal.
In the Commission's view, no issue arose under any of the above-mentioned Articles (art. 8, art. 3, art. 12).
65. Assuming that failure to try an action within a reasonable time can on occasions have repercussions as regards respect for some other right guaranteed by the Convention (see, mutatis mutandis, the judgment of 23 July 1968 on the merits of the "Belgian Linguistic" case, Series A no. 6, p. 33, par. 7), the Court would recall that in the present case there was no breach of the requirements of Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1). Apart from this consideration, the Court finds that no issue arises under Articles 8, 3 or 12 (art. 8, art. 3, art. 12) taken on their own.
Holds that there has not been breach either of Article 6 par. 1 (art. 6-1) or of Articles 3, 8 or 12 (art. 3, art. 8, art. 12) of the Convention.
Done in English and in French, the French text being authentic, at the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg, this sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one.
For the President
Walter GANSHOF VAN DER MEERSCH
Marc-André EISSEN


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As the temperatures start warming up I keep looking for ways to cool down without making any sacrifices. The first switch I typically make during the summer months is swapping out my hot coffee for an iced version. Having two small children doesn't give me the option to give up my coffee during the summer just because it's too hot to drink. As a mom you learn to make tweaks as necessary to get by. The ever so popular cold brew from Dunkin' Donuts® is my absolute favorite! It provides a consistent cup of coffee I can trust every time! But as we all know it's not always possible to get out of the house as quickly as we need that morning, noon or evening pick-me up! I decided to give it a go at home using DD whole bean bag coffee.
Not too long ago I shared a glimpse into my typical work week. As hectic as it seemed, weekends are more exhausting! My kids are SO demanding of me and hardly ever let me out of their sight. If I walk out of the room, I'll hear my son yell "mama!" I'll holler back at him, "Yea Bud! Be right back!!" and hope that he gives me a few minutes of peace before he decides to come find me.
Typically we'll spend one day out of the weekend on-the-go running errands, grocery shopping at Publix (hello FREE cookies!), hanging at the park, or heading to the local beach, theme park, or children's museum. Always in my hand or cup holder is a tumbler of coffee! How else would I manage to keep up with my energetic toddlers?!
If you have children you probably understand that it takes hours to get out of the house and it's even worse when you have a set time to be somewhere. That's usually when my kids seem to move their slowest. (insert eye roll) I once asked my daughter to go put shoes on and when a good amount of time had passed I found her in her room changing her underwear. I can't even imagine the thought process there…. My point being that having a prepared batch of rich and smooth cold brew in the fridge actually SAVES me a few extra minutes in the morning that I need to wrangle the kids out the door.
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3. Fill a mason jar with 4 cups of purified water.
4. Insert the stocking filled with coffee grinds in your water and cover tightly with the lid.
5. Leave the mason jar at room temperature for 18-24 hours.
6. Once your maximum time has been reached you can remove the stocking and store the cold brew in the refrigerator or for a stronger brew leave the stocking of grinds in your jar for an additional amount of time in the fridge.
Because cold brew is so concentrated you can add a little water to it or use a coffee creamer. I chose to add vanilla flavored coconut milk to mine! I use unsweetened canned coconut milk and add vanilla extract before storing in a glass jar in the refrigerator. Cold brew can also be used to create a delicious frozen frappe treat with a little chocolate sauce!
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Just recently and in the space of one week two police officers were attacked in the sanctity of their own homes.
I wrote about it arguing then that this is alarming and that the police at least must be doubly vigilant if that is at all possible considering what they face in Jamaica and the level of support that is given to criminals.
I argued in my last article that attacks on police in their own homes is nothing new but should be watched to see if there is a pattern developing.
I believe we need look no further to come to the reasonable conclusion that this is indeed a strategy being adopted by the well armed criminal underworld.
Yesterday female cop, Inspector A Grant was attacked in her home and shot along with her 23 ‑year-old daughter .
The officer reportedly returned fire hitting one of her assailants killing him.
We understand that the officer's husband is a police officer who was involved in a shooting and that the attack on her and her family was a reprisal attack.
We have been unable to get confirmation on that angle of the story.
Since Bruce Golding gave the the country INDECOM, the rule of law has gone to the dogs in Jamaica .
It is not that there shouldn't be oversight of Government agencies including the ones over which INDECOM have oversight responsibility.
The problem is the collusion which occurred between the Bruce Golding Government, outside lobby groups with agendas against the police the PNP with zero input from the police.
It is important to recognize that despite the trillions of dollars Jamaica's politicians have stolen and the criminality in which members of parliament have been involved, the Police and the Contractor General's department has no power to prosecute them.
The Police Military and Corrections which INDECOM Investigates, have given more than enough reasons for government to listen to the calls for transparency coming from the people.
Nevertheless, it is the complicity with which Golding and his cronies cobbled together INDECOM and placed his political operative Terrence Williams at the helm which is the problem.
Out of the INDECOM Act came increased and more brazen murders, attacks on law enforcement officers and a general unwillingness of police to go after criminals.
The political puppet Golding placed atop the INDECOM fecal pile never misses an opportunity to trumpet the fact that police shootings have gone down.
That's an absolute and irrefutable fact.
Those arguments are for his foreign handlers who give money to INDECOM to hamstrung the police and turn Jamaica into a wasteland of criminality, thereby keeping her impoverished and in debt.
What Terrence Williams never talks about is the fact that police shootings have gone down because police officers have largely disengaged while the murderers which have taken over the country have been emboldened.
As a consequences murders have gone up markedly with no end in sight.
If the idea behind INDECOM was for less criminals to get shot and more innocent Jamaicans shot and murdered the INDECOM Act has been a strategic success for INDECOM's financiers.
The arrogance of these terrorists are on full display for all to see 'now that they are emboldened by INDECOM , and the Office Of Public Defender, two tax payer funded Government agencies which supports criminals.
The killing of law enforcement officers will not cause an awakening of the people seemingly drunk on lasciviousness and wine, some other event will have to awaken them, if of course the country is not already too far gone and is largely populated with criminals.
Some within the Government continue to use cruise ship arrivals and visitors to all inclusive resorts as a barometer of stability in the country.
I understand the need for stability and calm but the Government is woefully misguided if it miscalculates how quickly those arrivals will evaporate if the terrorism in the country is allowed to continue.
The foreign press can do a lot of damage once this continues, its only a matter of time.
The images which many Jamaicans at home are not privy to and that which many in the diaspora pretend doesn't exist are out there for all to see.
People come to me and ask "I want to go on vacation we would like to go to Jamaica what do you think"?
They hear and see whats going on.
What do you think?


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