CASE OF BENKŐ AND SOÓSNÉ BENKŐ v. HUNGARY
Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Civil proceedings;Article 6-1 - Reasonable time);Non-pecuniary damage - award
András Sajó;Egidijus Kūris;Guido Raimondi;Helen Keller;Jon Fridrik Kjølbro;Nebojša Vučinić;Paul Lemmens
5. The applicant was born in 1937 and lived in Budapest. 6. On 23 April 2002 she brought an action before the Budapest XX/XXI/XXIII District Court, seeking the dissolution of common ownership. 7. On 22 November 2007 the Budapest Regional Court, acting as a second instance court, adopted a partial judgment in the case. 8. Pursuant to the applicant’s petition for review, the Supreme Court quashed the partial judgment on 25 June 2008 and remitted the case to the first instance court. 9. The case was terminated by the Budapest Regional Court on 1 December 2011 (service: 6 January 2012). 10. On 6 March 2012 the applicant’s lawyer posted a first communication to the Court, indicating an intention to lodge an application and giving some indication of the nature of the application. The communication was dated 5 March 2012.