• The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Croatia violated a female citizen’s right of access to court due to an unforeseeable calculation of the statute of limitations in a compensation case for expropriated land.
  • The land in Rijeka became an unclassified road, and the applicant’s ownership was erased; Croatian courts rejected her compensation claim as time-barred.
  • The ECHR found that the applicant could not have foreseen the start of the limitation period in 2000, but only in 2014 when the road was registered in the land registry.
  • The court awarded the applicant 2,079 euros for costs and expenses, while the remainder of her compensation claim was rejected.

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