The excessive duration of trials (administrative, penal and civil ones) had been the most frequent reason for which the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ascertained violations of the European Convention for Human Rights against Greece up until 2011.
Law 4055/2012 was adopted in compliance with the pilot and historic ruling of the ECHR οf December 21, 2010, issued on the appeal no 50973/2008 “Vasileios Athanasiou et al versus Greece”, which was filed by our office (the appellants were represented by Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos and Angeliki Psycha). In compliance with the above ruling of the ECHR, the above Law 4055/2012 was introduced, by virtue of which the legal remedy of the application for just satisfaction (reasonable compensation) in case of excess of the reasonable duration of the civil, administrative and penal trial, came into force, such excess being examined in the framework of the domestic legal order.
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