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The Court recalls that in assessing the reasonableness of the length of the proceedings in question, it is necessary to have regard to the particular circumstances of the case and the criteria laid down in the Court's case-law, in particular the complexity of the case and the conduct of the applicant and of the relevant authorities, and what was at stake for the applicant (see, for instance, Kudla v. Poland [GC], no. 30210/96, § 124, ECHR 2000-XI).

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The Court notes that the civil proceedings against the applicant were suspended and resumed, due to re-opening of the criminal investigation against the applicant, which in itself discloses a serious deficiency as this re-opening occurred two and a half years after proceedings against the applicant were terminated (see, mutatis mutandis, Baglay v. Ukraine, no. 22431/02, § 31, 8 November 2005 and Stoianova and Nedelcu v. Romania, nos. 77517/01 and 77722/01, § 20, ECHR 2005-...).

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The Court notes that the civil proceedings against the applicant were suspended and resumed, due to re-opening of the criminal investigation against the applicant, which in itself discloses a serious deficiency as this re-opening occurred two and a half years after proceedings against the applicant were terminated (see, mutatis mutandis, Baglay v. Ukraine, no. 22431/02, § 31, 8 November 2005 and Stoianova and Nedelcu v. Romania, nos. 77517/01 and 77722/01, § 20, ECHR 2005-...).

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Furthermore, the failure of the State authorities, and in particular representatives of the prosecutor's office, to comply with the rulings of the court hearing the case, to appear before the court in the course of the hearings of the case (see paragraphs 29, 39 and 40 above) and their failure to produce documents requested by the courts during the case examination (see paragraph 24 above) reveal little diligence on their part and showed that these official disregarded court rulings and contributed to the delay in examination of the case (see, mutatis mutandis, Nosal v. Ukraine, no. 18378/03, § 41, 29 November 2005).

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Moreover, it appears in the instant case that the judicial authorities failed to ensure that the proceedings in the case were expeditious and effective as they have not applied any meaningful measures in order to sanction the State officials' failure to appear in court or to enforce their procedural rulings given in the course of the proceedings aimed at their streamlining (see, Siliny v. Ukraine, no. 23926/02, § 34, 13 July 2006).