{"id":4279,"date":"2025-01-17T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2025\/01\/case-of-zhabynets-v-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:21:44","slug":"case-of-zhabynets-v-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2025\/01\/case-of-zhabynets-v-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE OF ZHABYNETS v. UKRAINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered a judgment in the case of Zhabynets v. Ukraine concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings and the lack of effective remedies in domestic law. The Court found violations of Article 6 \u00a7 1 and Article 13 of the Convention and awarded the applicant EUR 900 in non-pecuniary damages. The Court examined the case based on established criteria for assessing the reasonableness of proceedings&#8217; length: case complexity, conduct of the applicant and authorities, and what was at stake for the applicant. The proceedings in question lasted for 7 years, 1 month, and 7 days across three levels of jurisdiction, which the Court found to be excessive and in violation of the &#8216;reasonable time&#8217; requirement. The key provisions of the decision include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court found that the length of civil proceedings in Ukraine was excessive and violated Article 6 \u00a7 1 of the Convention<\/li>\n<li>The Court established that Ukraine failed to provide an effective remedy for complaints about lengthy proceedings, violating Article 13<\/li>\n<li>The decision references the leading case of Karnaushenko v. Ukraine, where similar violations were previously found<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine was ordered to pay compensation within three months, with interest applicable in case of delayed payment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/?i=001-238801\"><strong>Full text by link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered a judgment in the case of Zhabynets v. Ukraine concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings and the lack of effective remedies in domestic law. The Court found violations of Article 6 \u00a7 1 and Article 13 of the Convention and awarded the applicant EUR 900 in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[129,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-echr-decisions","category-eu-legislation-important","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}