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issued by the Registrar of the Court   ECHR 212 (2017)   22.06.2017   Judgments and decisions of 22 June 2017   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing 11 judgments1 and 24 decisions2:   two Chamber judgments are summarised below; separate press releases have been issued for three   others in the cases of Aycaguer v. France (application no. 8806/12), Barnea and Caldararu v. Italy   (no. 37931/15) and Bartesaghi Gallo and Others v. Italy (nos. 12131/13 and 43390/13);   separate press releases have also been issued for two decisions, in the case of Dagregorio and   Mosconi v. France (no. 65714/11) and in the case of Załuska v. Poland (no. 53491/10) and Rogalska   v. Poland (no. 72286/10) and 398 other applications;   six Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been submitted to the Court, and   the 22 other decisions, can be consulted on Hudoc and do not appear in this press release.   The judgments below are available only in English.   Petrović   v.   “the   former   Yugoslav   Republic   of   Macedonia”   (application no. 30721/15)   The applicant, Dušan Petrović, now deceased, was a Macedonian and Serbian national who was born   in 1926.   In 2002, Mr Petrović instituted restitution proceedings for confiscated property (a hotel in Skopje).   These proceedings are currently awaiting a decision from the Higher Administrative Court despite   the fact that, in July 2014, Mr Petrović applied to the Supreme Court and was granted a ruling that   the length of the restitution proceedings had been excessive.   Relying in particular on Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human   Rights, Mr Petrović complained about the excessive length of the restitution proceedings.   Violation of Article 6 § 1 (length of proceedings)   Just satisfaction: The Court dismissed Mr Petrović’s claim for just satisfaction.   S.M.M. v. the United Kingdom (no. 77450/12)   The applicant, S.M.M., is a Zimbabwean national who lives in London. Relying on Article 5 § 1 (f)   (right to liberty and security) of the European Convention, he claimed that he had been detained   unlawfully between November 2008 and September 2011. He was detained during that time on the   basis that he was awaiting deportation from the UK. In September 2011 he was released on bail and   one year later he was granted asylum in the country. He argued that the authorities had detained   him unlawfully, by failing to apply regulations requiring the release of persons detained under   immigration rules who had been victims of torture or who had been suffering from a serious mental   Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a Chamber   judgment’s delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a   panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and   deliver a final judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the   Convention, judgments delivered by a Committee are final.   Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution.   Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution   Inadmissibility and strike-out decisions are final.   illness. He also claimed that it had been unlawful to detain him on the grounds that he had been   awaiting deportation, given that there had been a moratorium on enforced removals to Zimbabwe   imposed by the Secretary of State up until October 2010. Finally, S.M.M. argued that his detention   had been arbitrary and disproportionate, due to its excessive length.   Violation of Article 5 § 1   Just satisfaction: The Court held tha the finding of a violation constituted sufficient just satisfaction   for any damage suffered by S.M.M. It further awarded him 7,000 euros (EUR) for costs and   expenses.   This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions,   judgments and further information about the Court can be found on www.echr.coe.int. To receive   the Court’s press releases, please subscribe here: www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter   @ECHR_Press.   Press contacts   [email protected] | tel: +33 3 90 21 42 08   Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel: + 33 3 88 41 35 30)   Denis Lambert (tel: + 33 3 90 21 41 09)   Inci Ertekin (tel: + 33 3 90 21 55 30)   George Stafford (tel: + 33 3 90 21 41 71)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member   States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.   2