Information Note on the Court’s case-law 16
March 2000
Velho da Costa de Abreu Rocha and Tito de Morais v. Portugal - 33436/96 and 33475/96
Judgment 23.3.2000 [Section IV]
Article 6
Civil proceedings
Article 6-1
Reasonable time
Length of civil proceedings: friendly settlement
The case concerns the length of two sets of civil proceedings brought by the applicants, both of which lasted around 5 years.
The parties have reached a friendly settlement providing for payment to each of the applicants of one million escudos (PTE) in respect of non-pecuniary damage, plus a lump sum of 300,000 escudos in respect of costs.
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