Windisch v. Austria (just satisfaction)

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

June 1993

Windisch v. Austria (just satisfaction) - 12489/86

Judgment 28.6.1993

Article 41

Non-pecuniary damage

Pecuniary damage

Claim for just satisfaction by an applicant whom the Court had held to be the victim of a breach of Article 6 of the Convention: claim dismissed

[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.]

A.Pecuniary damage

Result of fresh set of proceedings, together with the fact that the term of imprisonment previously served was fully taken into account; brought about a situation as close to restitutio in integrum as was possible in the nature of things.

B.Non-pecuniary damage

Compensation sought in respect of the length of national proceedings - not recoverable: violation found did not concern this point.

Conclusion: claim rejected (unanimously).

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This summary by the Registry does not bind the Court.

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