5.  The applicant was born in 1949 and lives in Torre del Greco. 6.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, can be summarised as follows. 7.  In January 1990, a few years after she had applied to the Interior Ministry for a disability pension, Ms T.G., the applicant’s mother, was granted an entitlement to the monthly payment of the pension together with a special allowance on account of her partial blindness. 8.  On 21 October 1994 Ms T.G. filed an application with Torre Annunziata District Court (pretore), sitting as an employment tribunal, to obtain acknowledgment of a re-evaluation of her pension and interest on the arrears. 9.  On 27 March 1998, after the hearing had been adjourned three times, the District Court dismissed the application as out of time. On 24 September 1998 Ms T.G. died. 10.  On 10 March 1999, the applicant, lodged an appeal against that decision, on her own behalf and in her capacity as heir, in Naples District Court. 11.  On 10 December 2002 that court acknowledged the applicant’s right to the recalculated sum and interest for a total of EUR 12,240.26. The decision became final on 25 January 2004. 12.  As the decision was not enforced by the relevant authorities, on 14 June 2004 the applicant served a payment order (atto di precetto) on the National Social Security Agency (Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale – INPS) for EUR 30,364.38, representing the sum claimed, with interest and taking account of the re-evaluation. 13.  On 25 January 2005 she obtained a garnishee order (pignoramento presso terzi) from the Naples enforcement judge in respect of her whole claim. 14.  On 25 May 2005 the applicant lodged an appeal with the “Pinto” Division of the Rome Court of Appeal, complaining about the excessive length of the proceedings. With regard to the admissibility of her appeal, she argued that, under section 4 of Law no. 89/2001 (the “Pinto Act”), the “final domestic decision” to be taken into account was that of the enforcement judge of 25 January 2005. In consequence, she argued, the six-month deadline for lodging the claim for just satisfaction ought to run from that date. 15.  On 18 May 2006 the Court of Appeal declared the appeal inadmissible as out of time, taking the view that the final domestic decision to be taken into consideration was that delivered by the Naples District Court in the proceedings on the merits, a decision which had become final on 25 January 2004. 16.  The Court of Cassation upheld that decision on 25 September 2008 and dismissed the applicant’s appeal on points of law.