3.3 The authors claim that the proceedings as a whole have lasted nearly 15 years (1985 2000) and that successive miscarriages of justice have contributed to this unreasonably lengthy process.

5.2 The authors state that they have spent years drawing attention to the miscarriages of justice, errors and irregularities to which they have been exposed and that they have taken specific complaints of violations of the right to a defence and of the principle of adversarial proceedings all the way up to the Court of Cassation.

4.7 As to the lack of a fair hearing, and with reference to the miscarriages of justice alleged by the authors, in the State party's view an error by a court does not constitute a culpable miscarriage of justice within the meaning of article 14 of the Covenant, to the extent that it arises in the course of a judicial process that also allows for its rectification.