Due to the length of the proceedings before the Constitutional Court of Montenegro of four years and eight months, the state of Montenegro should pay the petitioners 53.030 euros.
"On October 10, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision against Montenegro in the case Alić et al. achieved by the parties in the dispute, based on respect for human rights guaranteed by the Convention and the Protocols attached to it, and that there are no reasons that would justify further examination of the petition", it was announced from the Office of the representative of Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights.
The applicants, 48 of them, complained to the European Court of Human Rights about the excessive length of the proceedings before the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, which lasted four years, eight months and eight days, and related to an issue from the employment relationship, specifically the payment of less of paid wages.
"The mentioned case was communicated to the Government of Montenegro by the European Court of Human Rights as a case that represents the well-established practice of that court, because it is a repetitive case that related exclusively to the excessive length of the proceedings before the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, and this bearing in mind that the European Court of Human Rights had previously issued the Sinistaj v. Montenegro judgment against Montenegro, which established a violation of Article 6, paragraph 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights due to the excessive duration of the proceedings before the Constitutional Court of Montenegro of over four years and three months, and based on this, awarded the applicant compensation for non-material damages of 1.500 euros".
The announcement states that the European Court of Human Rights in the case Alić et al. v. Montenegro proposed to the state of Montenegro and the petitioners to conclude an amicable settlement by which the state of Montenegro would oblige the petitioners due to the excessive length of the proceedings before the Constitutional Court from over for four years and eight months, he paid 1.100 euros each for non-material damages and a total of 250 euros for the costs of the proceedings before the European Court.
"The aforementioned proposal, which is in accordance with the well-established jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, was accepted by both parties in the dispute, especially because according to the data of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, the applicants did not contribute to the duration of the proceedings before the Constitutional Court of Montenegro. in view of the fact that the length of the proceedings before the Constitutional Court of Montenegro is recognized as a problem in the legal system of Montenegro, the Government of Montenegro has already made conclusions, and based on the Report on the work of the Office of the Representative of Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights, which it recommended to the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, in order to reduce the length of proceedings before that court, to make an analysis of the cases that have been pending before that court for more than three years and to mark such cases as priority and define fixed deadlines for their completion," the announcement concludes.
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