KAKAMOUKAS AND OTHERS v. GREECE - 38311/02

Jean-Paul Costa, President, Christos Rozakis, Nicolas Bratza, Boštjan M. Zupančič, Peer Lorenzen, Riza Türmen, Karel Jungwiert, Josep Casadevall, Margarita Tsatsa-Nikolovska, Rait Maruste, Snejana Botoucharova, Mindia Ugrekhelidze, Vladimiro Zagrebelsky, Lech Garlicki, David Thór Björgvinsson, Danutė Jočienė, Mark Villiger, judges and Vincent Berger , Jurisconsult ,

. The case originated in an application (no. 38311/02) against the Greek Republic lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by fifty-eight Greek nationals listed in the Appendix (“the applicants”), on 17 October 2002.

. The applicants were represented by Mr D. Nikopoulos and Mr K. Gyiokas, of the Salonika Bar. The Greek Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent's delegates, Ms G. Skiani and Mr K. Georgiadis, Advisers, State Legal Council.

. The applicants complained, inter alia , under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention, about the length of two sets of proceedings before the Supreme Administrative Court.

. The application was allocated to the First Section of the Court (Rule 52 § 1 of the Rules of Court). Within that Section, the Chamber that would consider the case (Article 27 § 1 of the Convention) was constituted as provided in Rule 26 § 1.