Communicated on 6 March 2018
SECOND SECTION
Application no. 36077/17
Fatma MEKİ and Fatma BİLDİRİCİ
against Turkey
lodged on 26 April 2017
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns the substantial amount of lawyer’s fees imposed on the applicants by domestic courts as a result of expropriation proceedings brought against them by the administration.
The applicants complain of a violation of their right under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention, arguing that the lawyer’s fees they had to pay were not proportionate to the compensation awarded to them.
QUESTION tO THE PARTIES
Has there been an interference with the applicants’ right to peaceful enjoyment of their possessions? In particular, did the fact that the applicants were ordered to pay lawyer’s fees to the expropriating public authority constitute an excessive burden which upset the fair balance which must be struck between the general interest of the community and the fundamental rights of the individual (see, mutatis mutandis, Perdigão v. Portugal [GC], no. 24768/06, §§ 67-78, 16 November 2010)?
APPENDIX
No.
Firstname LASTNAME
Birth year
Nationality
Place of residence
Representative
Fatma MEKİ
1960
Turkish
Konya
A. Aktay
Fatma BİLDİRİCİ
1961
Turkish
Konya
A. Aktay
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