ELLIS AND SCILIO v. MALTA - 165/17 (Judgment : Protection of property : Third Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

��������� Georgios A. Serghides, President, ��������� Erik Wennerstr�m, ��������� Lorraine Schembri Orland, judges, and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application against the Republic of Malta lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by two Maltese nationals, Mr Ian Peter Ellis and Ms Elizabeth Scilio (�the applicants�), on 20 December 2016;

the decision to give notice to the Maltese Government (�the Government�) of the application;

The application concerns the compensation for a breach of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention in relation to the disproportionality of the rent received by the applicants. The domestic courts have acknowledged the violation and awarded compensation. The question arises as to whether the applicants remain victims of the violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1, and whether an issue arises as to the effectiveness of the domestic remedy.