4.  The applicant was born in 1958 and lives in Nyírtelek. 5.  In May 2000 the applicant brought an action in compensation against a hospital before the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Regional Court. She claimed that her son’s death in October 1999 was due to his inefficient treatment by the hospital’s doctors. In March 2001 the Regional Court gave judgment, finding that no causal link have been proven between the respondent’s alleged omissions and the death. This conclusion was upheld by the appellate bench of the Supreme Court on 29 January 2003. 6.  On 19 February 2003 the applicant requested the re-opening of the case, which was dismissed by the Regional Court, without an examination on the merits, on 7 May 2003. On appeal, the Budapest Court of Appeal reversed the first-instance judgment and remitted the case to the Regional Court on 3 September 2003. 7.  On 7 May 2004 the Regional Court suspended the proceedings pending the determination of criminal proceedings initiated against the doctors and the general practitioner for reckless endangerment resulting in death. The Budapest Court of Appeal, however, established that it had not been necessary to await the outcome of the criminal proceedings, as the subject matter of the two proceedings is different. It therefore ordered the continuation of the civil proceedings on 15 October 2004. 8.  On 23 February 2007 the Regional Court gave judgment. On appeal, the Debrecen Court of Appeal quashed this judgment and remitted the case to the first-instance court on 17 January 2008. 9.  In the resumed proceedings the Regional Court dismissed the applicant’s action, which was upheld by the Court of Appeal on 8 July 2010. The applicant submitted a petition for review with the Supreme Court, which was dismissed on 30 March 2011.