Pugliese v. Italy (no. 1)

Information Note on the Court’s case-law No.

February 1991

Pugliese v. Italy (no. 1) - 11840/85

Judgment 19.2.1991

Article 6

Article 6-1

Reasonable time

Length of criminal proceedings: violation

[This summary is extracted from the Court’s official reports (Series A or Reports of Judgments and Decisions). Its formatting and structure may therefore differ from the Case-Law Information Note summaries.]

I.ARTICLE 6 § 1 OF THE CONVENTION ("reasonable time")

A.Period to be taken into consideration

Starting-point: date on which judicial notification was sent to applicant.

Close: pronouncement of amnesty by District Court.

Total: more than five years and two months.

B.Applicable criteria

Reasonableness of length of proceedings: to be assessed in the light of the particular circumstances of the case, which in this instance called for overall assessment.

Case not a complex one and applicant caused hardly any delay – long periods of stagnation at first instance and on appeal attributable to competent authorities.

Conclusion: violation (unanimously).

II.ARTICLE 50 OF THE CONVENTION

Non-pecuniary damage: finding of a violation sufficient satisfaction.

Conclusion: judgment constituted in itself sufficient just satisfaction (unanimously).

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