Published on 12 May 2025
 
FIRST SECTION
Application no. 60258/13
SCHIAVO S.R.L. against Italy
and 3 other applications
(see list appended)
communicated on 22 April 2025
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASES
The applications concern the adequacy of remedies in domestic law for complaints regarding the excessive duration of legal proceedings (see the appended table for details). Article 2-bis § 3 of Law no. 89 of 24 March 2001 (as amended by Law no. 134 of 7 August 2012), commonly referred to as the “Pinto Act”, stipulates that “the amount of damages [...] may in no case exceed the value of the claim or, if lower, the value of the claim as determined by the court”.
Invoking Articles 6 and 13 of the Convention, the applicants complain of the excessive length of the domestic proceedings and of the absence of an effective remedy to provide them with appropriate compensation.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
1.  Was the length of the domestic proceedings in the present applications in breach of the “reasonable time” requirement of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention? If so, can the compensation awarded by the domestic courts be considered sufficient, in consideration of the statutory limit to compensation equivalent to the value of the litigation as determined by the domestic courts (see, among many others, Cocchiarella v. Italy [GC], no. 64886/01, ECHR 2006-V)?
 
2.  With regard to the limit of the possible compensation established by Article 2-bis § 3 of Law no. 89 of 24 March 2001, did the applicants have at their disposal, as required by Article 13 of the Convention, an effective domestic remedy through which they could have been adequately compensated for the alleged excessive length of the procedure?
 
3.  Concerning application no. 60258/13, would an application to the domestic courts under Law no. 89 of 24 March 2001 have constituted an effective remedy under Article 13 of the Convention (see, mutatis mutandis, Olivieri and Others v. Italy, nos. 17708/12 and 3 others, §§ 35 and 70-71, 25 February 2016, and Vučković and Others v. Serbia (preliminary objection) [GC], nos. 17153/11 and 29 others, §§ 71-77, 25 March 2014)?
 
APPENDIX
List of applications
 
No.
Application no.
Case name
Lodged on
Applicant
Year of birth
Place of Residence
Nationality
Represented by
Length of domestic proceedings
“Pinto” proceedings
Domestic award
(In euros)
1.
60258/13
Schiavo S.r.l. v. Italy
28/06/2013
SCHIAVO S.R.L.
Schio
Italian
Luigi SCHIAVO
- Appeal to the Court of Cassation lodged on 30/01/2007
- Court of Cassation – R.G. 6119/2007 – judgment of 28/12/2012
- Length: 5 years, 10 months, 28 days
None
None
2.
44596/18
Andreani v. Italy
12/09/2018
Egidio ANDREANI
1942
Cattolica
Italian
Piero GUALTIERI
1) Application to the District Court of Pesaro lodged on 05/02/1998
- District Court of Pesaro – R.G. 391/1998 – judgment of 05/09/2002
2) Appeal to the Court of Appeal of Ancona lodged on 02/10/2006
- Court of Appeal of Ancona – R.G. 953/2006 – judgment of 19/07/2012
- Length: 14 years, 5 months, 14 days
Application lodged on 05/06/2013
 
Court of Appeal of L’Aquila – R.G. 220/2013 V.G. – Decree of 25/03/2014
 
Court of Appeal of L’Aquila (upon opposition) – R.G. 135/2014 V.G. – Decree of 18/05/2016
 
Court of Cassation – R.G. 17902/2016 – Judgment of 16/04/2018
 
EUR 2,953.22
3.
13410/23
Miglietta v. Italy
21/03/2023
Vincenzo MIGLIETTA
1943
Statte
Italian
Mario ROCCAFORTE
1) Application to the Labour Court of Taranto lodged on 11/02/2000
- Labour Court of Taranto – R.G. 2373/2000 – judgment of 16/02/2009
2) Appeal to the Court of Appeal of Lecce lodged on 29/03/2010
- Court of Appeal of Lecce – R.G. 253/2010 – judgment of 12/02/2015
3) Appeal to the Cort of Cassation lodged on 06/07/2015
- Court of Cassation – R.G. 17448/2015 – judgment of 16/01/2020
- Length: 19 years, 11 months, 5 days
Application lodged on 12/10/2020
 
Court of Appeal of Lecce – R.G. 482/2020 V.G. – Decree of 21/11/2020
 
Court of Appeal of Lecce (upon opposition) – R.G. 670/2020 V.G. – Decree of 11/11/2021
 
Court of Cassation – R.G. 11515/2022 – Judgment of 17/01/2023
 
EUR 655.89
4.
36375/24
Aguiari and Others v. Italy
22/11/2024
Alessandro AGUIARI
1964
Firenze
Italian
Maria CASORIA
1956
Sesto Fiorentino
Italian
Gandolfo CURCIO
1977
Certaldo
Italian
Leonardo FURNARI
1947
Sesto Fiorentino
Italian
Silvia GUARNIERI
1962
Larciano
Italian
Elvio LIBBRA
1952
Colle Di Val D’elsa
Italian
Nenad MILOSAVLJEVIC
1964
Ponte Buggianese
Italian
Maurizio PINELLI
1949
Rufina
Italian
Nora SARDELLI
1962
Calenzano
Italian
Andrea SACCUCCI
1) Executive admission of the applicants’ credits to bankruptcy proceedings before the District Court of Prato – R.F. 3371/1998 – of 20/05/1999
2) Decree closing the bankruptcy proceedings with final distribution of 19/02/2020
- Length: 20 years, 8 months, 30 days
Application lodged on 08/12/2020
 
Court of Appeal of Florence – R.G. 764/2020 V.G. – Decree of 19/01/2021
 
Court of Appeal of Florence (upon opposition) – R.G. 45/2021 V.G. – Decree of 22/06/2021
 
Court of Cassation – R.G. 2874/2022 – Judgment of 23/07/2024
 
Alessandro Aguiari EUR 4,082.36 Maria CasoriaEUR 741.62 Gandolfo Curcio EUR 794.16 Leonardo Furnari EUR 146.35 Silvia GuarnieriEUR 3,389.66 Elvio LibbraEUR 600.93 Nenad Milosaljevic EUR 489.96 Maurizio PinelliEUR 4,376.71 Nora SardelliEUR 847.68