Key legal question
Whether the request for restoration of the appeal deadline and renewed entry into the nullity appeal was admissible and timely.
Extracted holding
The request was inadmissible because it was filed far outside both the former ten-day and the current thirty-day restoration period; the claimed mistake about the applicable procedural law would in any event not justify restoration.
Extracted reasoning
The non-entry decision had been served on counsel on 2006-10-16, and service on counsel counts as service on the applicant. The restoration request was only posted on 2007-03-26, so the deadline under either Art. 35 OG or Art. 50 BGG was missed. A misunderstanding of the applicable procedural regime is not a valid ground for restoration.