Information Note on the Court’s case-law No. 131
June 2010
Poslu and Others v. Turkey - 6149/04, 6162/04, 6297/04 et al.
Judgment 8.6.2010 [Section II]
Article 35
Article 35-1
Six month period
Six-month period to be calculated by reference to criteria specific to the Convention: inadmissible
Facts – Following the privatisation of their company, the applicants lost their civil servant status. They brought various actions before the competent administrative courts with a view to obtaining compensation for the termination of their employment contracts, but to no avail. On appeal, the Supreme Administrative Court upheld the first-instance judgments.
Law – Article 35 § 1: in application no. 6162/04, the Supreme Administrative Court's judgment of 19 June2003, which was the final domestic court decision, had been served on the applicant on 25 July2003. The applicant had lodged his application with the Court on 26 January 2004, more than six months after receiving notification of the final domestic court decision. It followed that the application had been lodged out of time and should be rejected pursuant to Article 35 §§ 1 and 4. (See alsoOtto v. Germany (dec.), no. 21425/06, 10 November 2009, Information Note no. 124)
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