JAKELI v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 5 May 2017 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 35020/12Miniko JAKELIagainst Georgialodged on 8 May 2012STATEMENT OF FACTSThe applicant, Ms Miniko Jakeli, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1965 and lives in Batumi. She is represented before the Court by Mr Sh. Jibladze, a lawyer practising in Batumi.A.  The circumstances of the caseThe facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.In 2007 a major reform process begun concerning land privatisation in Georgia. On 11 July 2007 the Parliament of Georgia adopted the Act on Recognition of Property Rights to Plots of Land possessed (used) by physical and legal persons (“the Recognition Act”). The purpose of the Recognition Act was to establish a procedure for formal recognition of ownership rights in respect of land. It envisaged three possibilities for legalising ownership rights over land: lawful …