FOURTH SECTION

DECISION

PILOT-JUDGMENT PROCEDURE

Application no. 24952/02
by Henryk and Adam KRZYŻANOWSKI
against Poland

The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 23 September 2008 as a Chamber composed of:

Nicolas Bratza, President,
Lech Garlicki,
Giovanni Bonello,
Ljiljana Mijović,
David Thór Björgvinsson,
Ján Šikuta,
Päivi Hirvelä, judges,
and Lawrence Early, Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 15 June 2002,

Having regard to the decision to apply the pilot-judgment procedure and to adjourn its consideration of applications deriving from the same systemic problem identified in the case of Broniowski v. Poland (no. 31443/96),

Having regard to the decisions to strike the applications Wolkenberg and Others v. Poland (no. 50003/99) and Witkowska-Toboła v. Poland (no. 11208/02) out of the Court's list of cases,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

THE FACTS

The applicants, Mr Henryk Krzyżanowski (“the first applicant”) and Mr Adam Krzyżanowski (“the second applicant”), are Polish nationals who were born in 1924 and 1931 respectively and live in Grodkόw.

A. Historical background to Bug River cases before the Court

(See E.G. v. Poland, no. 50425/99, §§ 2-5).

B. Particular circumstances of case no. 24952/02

The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.

On 23 February 1993 the Nysa District Court (Sąd Rejonowy) gave a decision declaring that the applicants had acquired their late sister's estate and that the