Information Note on the Court’s case-law 10
September 1999
Etablissements scolaires Douka and Others v. Greece (dec.) - 38786/97
Decision 21.9.1999 [Section II]
Article 1 of Protocol No. 1
Article 1 para. 1 of Protocol No. 1
Peaceful enjoyment of possessions
Act retroactively imposing a limitation on the increase of school fees for private schools: inadmissible
The applicants are private schools. The amount which private schools could charge by way of school fees for the school year 1996-97 was affected by a retrospective law which came into force in May 1997. Under that law, private schools could not increase their fees by more than 7% compared with the previous school year, on pain of a fine. The applicants submit that the running costs of private schools went up by 13.25% during the school year 1996-97.
Inadmissible under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 and Article 13 of the Convention.
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