Communicated on 7 July 2016
FIFTH SECTION
Application no. 16741/16
Johanna FRÖHLICH
against Germany
lodged on 17 March 2016
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the length of civil proceedings, which were instigated by the applicant in June 2007 and terminated by friendly settlement of the parties in October 2012 and thus lasted five years and six months for one level of jurisdiction. The applicant complains that the length of the proceedings has been incompatible with the “reasonable time” requirement, laid down in Article 6 § 1 of the Convention. She claims in particular that several delays in the proceedings resulted from an inactivity of the experts who either failed to prepare their reports at all or submitted them belatedly and that this failure was attributable to the domestic courts.
QUESTION tO THE PARTIES
Was the length of the civil proceedings in the present case in breach of the “reasonable time” requirement of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention?
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