FIRST SECTION
Application no. 64982/12
Branka ŠKRTIĆ
against Croatia
lodged on 27 July 2012
STATEMENT OF FACTS
The applicant, Ms Branka Škrtić, is a Croatian national, who was born in 1951 and lives in Karlovac. She is represented before the Court by Ms R. Dozet Daskal, a lawyer practising in Karlovac.
The circumstances of the case
The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.
The applicant and her husband were holders of a specially protected tenancy on a flat in Karlovac. In 1991 a bomb was thrown into the flat and the family moved out of the flat for security reasons. By a decision of the Karlovac Housing Committee of 29 November 1991 they were given another flat in Karlovac for temporary occupation. The applicant’s husband moved out of the flat in 1992 and they subsequently divorced. The applicant and two children born of the marriage continued to occupy the flat. The above-said decision was annulled by the same Commission on 11 November 2000.
In 2000 the Karlovac Municipality, as the owner of the flat, brought a civil action in the Karlovac Municipal Court against the applicant, seeking her eviction. The claim was granted on 1 February 2008 on the ground that the flat at issue had been given for temporary occupation to the applicant’s husband who had left the flat and that that decision had been annulled in 2000 and that therefore she no longer had a legal basis for occupying the flat.
This judgment was upheld by the Karlovac County Court on 19 August 2009.
The applicant’s subsequent constitutional complaint was dismissed on 29 March 2012.
COMPLAINT
The applicant complains under Article 8 of the Convention that her right to respect for her home has been violated.
QUESTION
Has there been a violation of the applicant’s right to respect for her home, contrary to Article 8 of the Convention?
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