4.  The applicant was born in 1960 and lives in Velika Gorica. 5.  On 8 March 1991, while driving in a car as a passenger, the applicant was shot and injured by unknown perpetrator. 6.  On 24 March 1994 the applicant brought a civil action against the State in the Zagreb Municipal Court (Općinski sud u Zagrebu) seeking damages for the sustained injuries. She relied on section 180 of the Civil Obligations Act. 7.  On 18 October 1994 the Municipal Court gave judgment accepting the applicant's claim in part. The respondent appealed. 8.  On 3 February 1996 the Amendment to the Civil Obligations Act (“the 1996 Amendment”) entered into force. It provided that all proceedings concerning actions for damages resulting from terrorist acts or acts of violence were to be stayed pending the enactment of new legislation on the subject. 9.  On 18 June 1996 the Zagreb County Court (Županijski sud u Zagrebu) quashed the first-instance judgment and remitted the case. 10.  In the resumed proceedings, on 18 September 1997 the Municipal Court stayed the proceedings pursuant to the 1996 Amendment. 11.  On 31 July 2003 the Act on Liability for Damage Resulting from Terrorist Acts and Public Demonstrations (“the 2003 Liability Act”) entered into force. 12.  Pursuant to the 2003 Liability Act, on 25 February 2004 the Municipal Court resumed the proceedings. It held hearings on 20 June 2004 and 20 January 2005. 13.  On 3 February 2005 the court pronounced its judgment accepting the applicant's claim in part. Both parties appealed. 14.  On 6 December 2005 the Zagreb County Court (Županijski sud u Zagrebu) dismissed the appeals and upheld the first-instance judgment. 15.  Meanwhile, on 23 April 2002 the applicant lodged a constitutional complaint with the Constitutional Court (Ustavni sud Republike Hrvatske) complaining about the length of the above proceedings. On 28 June 2004 the Constitutional Court accepted the applicant's complaint. Relying on the Court's case law (Kutić v. Croatia, no. 48778/99, ECHR 2002‑II), it found violations of the applicant's constitutional rights to a hearing within a reasonable time and of access to a court. It awarded her 4,400 Croatian kunas (HRK) in compensation, and ordered the Zagreb Municipal Court to give a decision in the case in the shortest time possible but no later than a year following the publication of the decision in the Official Gazette. The Constitutional Court's decision was published on 20 July 2004.