4.  The applicant, Mr Aleksandr Nikolayevich Prasov, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1949 and lives in Zaporizhzhya. 5.  The applicant is a co-founder and former managing director of a private limited liability company, P. At a meeting of 18 December 1999, the company’s shareholders struck him off the list of the company’s shareholders and re-distributed his shares that, according to applicant, were worth UAH 162,962 (EUR 26,074)[1] on 14 August 2003. 6.  On 30 December 1999 the applicant lodged a complaint with the Leninsky Court of Zaporizhzhya (“the Leninsky Court”) seeking to set aside the decision of 18 December 1999. 7.  On 17 November 2000 the court, relying on the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure 1963 that, among other things, governed examination of complaints against officials, allowed his complaint in part. 8.  On 26 December 2000 the Zaporizhzhya Regional Court, following the respondent’s appeal, quashed that judgment and remitted the case to the Leninsky Court which, in a judgment of 25 May 2001, found for the applicant. 9.  On 19 September 2001 the Zaporizhzhya Regional Court of Appeal (“the Court of Appeal”) quashed that judgment and ordered a fresh consideration by the first instance court. The applicant filed an appeal in cassation which was dismissed by the Supreme Court on 16 November 2001. 10.  In May 2002 the Court of Appeal transferred the case to another District Court and in July 2004 it sent it back to the Leninsky Court. 11.  On 3 March 2005 the Leninsky Court found in part for him. 12.  On 30 May 2005 the Court of Appeal quashed that judgment and left the applicant’s complaint without consideration stating that the case fell to be dealt with in civil contentious proceedings. The applicant did not appeal in cassation. 13.  In July 2005 the applicant instituted civil contentious proceedings before the Leninsky Court with the same object as the first set of proceedings. 14.  On 29 March 2006 the court rejected the applicant’s claim as unsubstantiated. 15.  On 23 May 2006 the Court of Appeal upheld that judgment. The court in particular found that the claim was submitted out of the statutory time limit of three years. The applicant appealed in cassation. 16.  On 23 October 2007 the Supreme Court, according to the Judicial System Act (as amended on 22 February 2007), transferred the appeal to the Odesa Regional Court of Appeal. 17.  On 28 November 2007 the Odesa Regional Court of Appeal, having found that the appeal was outside its jurisdiction, transferred it to the Higher Commercial Court which, on 26 March 2008, dismissed the appeal. The applicant again appealed in cassation to the Supreme Court. 18.  By the final ruling of 12 June 2008, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal in cassation.