König Case

Abstract

The individual in international law — Human rights and freedoms — Right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time in the determination of civil rights and obligations — Notion of “civil rights” — Whether rights of a private law character — Relevance of substantive content and effect of rights rather than formal legal character in municipal legal system — Right of a medical practitioner to practise medicine and to run a private clinic — Application of the standard of reasonable time to proceedings in administrative courts — Point at which time begins to run for this purpose — Period to which the standard is to be applied — Applicant's conduct — Unjustifiable judicial delays — European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Article 6 (1)

European Court of Human Rights — Procedure — Whether Court entitled to consider allegation raised as alternative ground in application and declared inadmissible by Commission — Damages — When question of award of damages ready for decision — European Convention, Article 50