4.  The applicant was born in 1959 and lives in Nyíregyháza. 5.  In June 1989 the applicant initiated an action against the members of a building society before the Nyíregyháza District Court, requesting the court to quash the respondent society’s decision excluding him from the building society. 6.  Following several remittals and suspensions, the proceedings finally continued and were joined with another case initiated by a water management association and the respondents in the earlier case. 7.  On 27 October 2004 the Nyíregyháza District Court delivered its decision which was amended in part on appeal by the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Regional Court on 7 April 2005. 8.  On 13 October 2005 the Supreme Court dismissed the applicant’s petition for review in a reasoned decision. Examining the merits of the case, it held that the second-instance judgment had not been unlawful to an extent that had a bearing on the merits of the case. This decision was served on 29 November 2005.