4.  The applicants were born in 1924, 1963, 1965 and 1963 respectively and live in İzmir. 5.  On 21 September 1989 the applicants brought a case before the Seferihisar Cadastral Court in claim of possession on a plot of land 6.  On 18 September 2006 the case was finalised. 7.  In the course of the proceedings there was only one judge authorised to hear cadastral cases and in the entire proceedings only eight hearings were presided by the same judge. 8.  The Cadastral Court decided to conduct on-site examination after four years and five months from the beginning of the proceedings. The decision to conduct on-site examination was implemented nine years and four months after the decision. 9.  In cadastral cases courts were authorised by the law to issue the certificate of inheritance, replacing magistrate civil courts. However, in the case at hand the cadastral court avoided to exercise such authority and preferred to give deadlines to the parties to apply to the magistrate civil courts that caused about six years of delay.