CASE OF HELDENBURG v. THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Pecuniary damage - award (Article 41 - Pecuniary damage;Just satisfaction)
Ledi Bianku;Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos;Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska;Pauliine Koskelo;Robert Spano
7. The applicants sent five letters to the Court in total: on 7 September 2014, on 6 and 21 January, and on 2 and 18 March 2015. Each of the letters contained information concerning their claims for just satisfaction and their friendly-settlement negotiations, and specifically the sums that the Government had offered to them in a letter of 6 January 2015. In the letter of 21 January 2015, the applicants repeated the statements they had made in their letter of 6 January 2015 and compared the sum offered by the Government with that in the case of Šumbera v. the Czech Republic (no. 44410/09, 11 June 2015 (just satisfaction)). They also transmitted to the Court the content of the Government’s letters on friendly-settlement negotiations held on 30 September and 18 November 2014 and 16 January 2015. 8. By a letter of 13 February 2015 the applicants, invoking the Free Access to Information Act 1999, asked the Ministry of Justice about the method used to calculate the sum offered to them in the friendly settlement. On 17 March 2015 the applicants requested that the Ministry of Justice review its previous response under that Act. They attached the Government Agent’s letter of 18 November 2014 sent to them in the context of the friendly-settlement negotiations. They once again asked about the method used to calculate the sum offered to them for the friendly settlement. 9. On 31 March 2015 the applicants lodged an application to reopen the original proceedings before the Constitutional Court.