Decision of the Court of Cassation, United Sections, No. 585 of 3 December 2013, filed on 14 January 2014

This decision of the United Sections of the Court of Cassation intervened to clarify a point not clear in the previous Court’s jurisprudence, i.e. that the right to fair compensation for the unreasonably length of proceedings exists even in the case of proceeding in absentia; and this because the fact that the interested party actively participated or not in the proceeding is not foreseen as a prerequisite in Italian legislation (law No. 89 of 2001, so called “Legge Pinto”), nor in Article 6 of the ECHR.