TESTAFERRATA BONICI AND OTHERS v. MALTA - 41862/18 (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 (no. 41862/18 ) 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 four Maltese nationals, Mr Philip Testaferrata Bonici, Ms Marie Bianchi, Mr Nicholas Bianchi and Ms Rita Testaferrata Bonici (�the applicants�), on 30 August 2018;

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

The case concerns the requisition of the applicants� property and the disproportionality of the rent received by the applicants under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1, as well as the effectiveness of the Constitutional Court as a remedy for the purposes of Article 13 in connection with the former complaint.