Cyprus Found Guilty by the European Court of Human Rights

for exceeding a reasonable length of court proceedings and the lack of an effective remedy

Background

The appellant, a resident of Paphos, complained about the delay in a private criminal case relating to an accusation of non-payment of a debt to a credit institution. The proceedings were stopped in 2019 by decision of the Attorney General's Office.

The applicant argued that the length of the proceedings, more than four and a half years, was unreasonable, and that he had no effective remedy to complain about the length of the proceedings.

The ECHR accepted the applicant's claims and found Cyprus in breach of his rights. Non-pecuniary damages of €4,200 were awarded to the Prosecution.

Outcome

The European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of a Cypriot citizen v. Cyprus (No. 16783/20) that there had been a violation of the right to an effective remedy, taken together with the right to a fair trial within a reasonable time.

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