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Convicted for Five Years — Never Properly Informed: How a Formal Error Threatened Livelihoods

Why the Constitutional Court criticised the Palma notification

The Constitutional Court said Palma’s notification process failed because the company had already been dissolved.

Published: April 23, 2026
Convicted for Five Years — Never Properly Informed: How a Formal Error Threatened Livelihoods

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Why did the Constitutional Court criticise the notification process in the Palma case?

The court criticised the fact that the lawsuit was served electronically to a mailbox that had been inactive for years and belonged to a liquidated company. It also noted that the court could have checked the commercial register and seen that the company no longer existed. That failure meant the affected people were deprived of proper judicial protection.

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