ABSTRACT
The period to be taken into consideration began on 6 October 1992 and was still pending on 8 October 1999, a duration of a little more than seven years at one instance. In four judgments of 28 July 1999 the Court had found that there existed in Italy a practice incompatible with the Convention, resulting from an accumulation of breaches of the ‘reasonable time’ requirement. That accumulation constituted circumstances aggravating the violation of A 6.
