4.  The applicant was born in 1928 and lives in the Rivne Region. 5.  On 28 March 2001 she lodged a claim with the Mlyniv Court against a collective enterprise N. and the Mlyniv State Administration seeking recovery of her share in N. According to applicant, the share was worth UAH 29,767 (EUR 2,680)[1] on 15 June 2009. 6.  On 10 April 2003 that court scheduled the first hearing for 6 May 2003, and then the next one for 21 January 2005. 7.  On 28 January 2005 the court refused to examine the applicant's complaint owing to her repeated failure to appear at the hearings. On 14 November 2005 the applicant appealed against the refusal. 8.  On 21 March 2006 the Rivne Regional Court of Appeal (“Court of Appeal”) having found no indication that the applicant had been informed of the hearings quashed the decision of 28 January 2005 and remitted the case to the first instance court. 9.  On 1 September 2006 the Mlyniv Court dismissed the applicant's claim as unsubstantiated. On 2 October and 12 December 2006 the applicant lodged respectively an appeal and a rectified appeal. 10.  On 25 January 2007 the Court of Appeal upheld the judgment of 1 September 2006. This decision was not appealed against and became final. 11.  According to the Government, out of the nine court hearings scheduled in the course of the proceedings (six in the first instance court, three in the second instance court), three were adjourned following the respondents' failure or inability to appear, one each was adjourned due the presiding judge being on sick leave, both parties failure to appear and the applicant's failure to appear. Also during the proceedings, the applicant filed four procedural requests.