LA SPADA v. ITALY - 2731/14 (Article 6 - Right to a fair trial : First Section Committee)

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

Péter Paczolay , President , Gilberto Felici, Raffaele Sabato , judges , and Liv Tigerstedt, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 2731/14 ) against the Italian Republic lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") on 16 December 2013 by an Italian national, Mr Attilio La Spada, born in 1948 and living in Milazzo ("the applicant") who was represented by Mr G. Romano and Mr E. Lizza, lawyers practising in Rome;

the decision to give notice of the application to the Italian Government ("the Government"), represented by their former co-Agent, Mrs P. Accardo;

The case concerns the deprivation of the applicant's land through the application by the domestic courts of the constructive-expropriation rule ( accessione invertita or occupazione acquisitiva ), as well as the non-enforcement of the domestic courts' decisions rendered in this respect.