CASE OF MARKOVIĆ v. SERBIA
Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Civil proceedings;Article 6-1 - Reasonable time)
Branko Lubarda;Dmitry Dedov;Luis López Guerra
5. The applicant was born in 1951 and lives in Waldegg, Austria. 6. On 28 September 1994 the applicant initiated civil proceedings requesting the division of a certain estate. 7. On 5 January 2009 the Ivanjica Municipal Court suspended the said proceedings until conclusion of another civil case. 8. It would appear that the said civil proceedings are still pending. 9. On 23 June 2011 the Constitutional Court found a breach of the applicant’s right to a hearing within a reasonable time and ordered the speeding up of the impugned proceedings. The court, additionally, declared that the applicant was entitled to the non-pecuniary damages sought, in accordance with Article 90 of the Constitutional Court Act (see paragraph 13, Article 90, below). 10. It seems that, the applicant contacted the Commission for Compensation on 11 December 2011 and requested the payment of the compensation awarded, but apparently received no response.