EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

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  4.7.2000

Press release issued by the Registrar

JUDGMENT IN THE CASE AKIN v. NETHERLANDS

The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing judgment in the following case:

Chamber (Section 2)

Akın  v. the Netherlands (application number 34986/97)                              Friendly settlement

Ayşe Akın, a Turkish national, complained, among other things, under Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial within a reasonable time) of the European Convention on Human Rights about the length of the administrative proceedings concerning her requests for child care benefits, which lasted around four years.  The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to strike out the case following a friendly settlement in which the applicant is to be paid 2,000 guilders. The judgment exists only in English.

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The European Court of Human Rights was set up in 1959 in Strasbourg to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.  On 1 November 1998 a full-time Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Commission and Court.