4.  The first applicant, Mr Petro Mykhaylovych Lozynskyy, was born in 1964; the second applicant, Mr Viktor Fedorovych Ashurkov, was born in 1955; the third applicant, Mrs Mariya Vasylivna Lozynska, was born in 1965. All the applicants are Ukrainian nationals and reside in the Bashtansky District of the Mykolayiv region. 5.  On 13 November and 18 December 2000 the Bashtanka Court, in three separate judgments, ordered a private JSC “Peremoga” (hereafter “the JSC”) to pay the applicants, respectively, UAH 2335, 1798 and 1552[3]. 6.  On 8 June 2001 the Bashtanka Court, upon the applicants' complaint, declared unlawful the failure of the Bashtanka Bailiffs' Service (hereafter “the Bailiffs”) to enforce the judgments of 13 November and 18 December 2000. The court established that the Bailiffs had taken no steps to enforce the judgments. In particular, no measures had been undertaken to attach and sell the debtor's property. 7.  During 2002 the Bailiffs attached and sold the JSC's property, following which the applicants were paid UAH 1,059, 910 and 1,368, respectively. 8.  As on 28 April 2004 the Mykolayiv Commercial Court declared the JSC insolvent, the Bailiffs terminated the enforcement proceedings and transferred the writs of execution to the liquidation commission. 9.  The judgments' debts owed to the applicants were paid in total in September 2005. 10.  By decisions of 21 September and 1 October 2001 the Bashtanka Court awarded each applicant UAH 590[4] against the Bailiffs for non-pecuniary damage caused by the failure to execute the judgments given in their favour against the JSC. 11.  On 8 January 2002 the Bailiffs instituted enforcement proceedings in respect of the judgments of 21 September and 1 October 2001. 12.  On 16 September 2004 the writs of execution were returned to the applicants unenforced due to the debtor's lack of funds.