Information Note on the Court’s case-law No. 7
June 1999
Zubani v. Italy (just satisfaction) [GC] - 14025/88
Judgment 16.6.1999 [GC]
Article 41
Just satisfaction
The Court held that the Italian Government must pay 1,000,000,000 ITL overall to Aldo, Angela, Letizia and Maddalena Zubani, all Italian nationals over 80 years old, as compensation for losses sustained following the unlawful occupation of their land by the Municipality of Brescia in 1980, notably in relation to the length of the proceedings brought by the applicants following the occupation of their land. In its principal judgment of 7 August 1996 the Court held that there had been a breach of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property), leaving the question of just satisfaction to be decided.
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