The European Court treats the Immovable Property Commission as a remedy to be used first
Demopoulos: the Immovable Property Commission is a domestic remedy to be used first
· European Court of Human Rights · Court decision
In force since 1 March 2010.
The Grand Chamber declared inadmissible eight applications by displaced Greek Cypriot owners for non-exhaustion of domestic remedies, holding that Law 67/2005 provides an accessible and effective framework of redress, while stressing that owners have not lost ownership in any formal sense and are not obliged to use the Commission.
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- [1]Demopoulos and Others v. Turkey (dec.) [GC], applications nos. 46113/99, 3843/02, 13751/02, 13466/03, 10200/04, 14163/04, 19993/04 and 21819/04, decision of 1 March 2010
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