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==Just satisfaction==
The court may award [[Wikt:pecuniary|pecuniary]] or non-pecuniary [[damages]], called "just satisfaction". The awards are typically small in comparison to verdicts by national courts and rarely exceed £1,000 plus legal costs.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Just satisfaction|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198802525.001.0001/acref-9780198802525-e-2157 |encyclopedia=Oxford Reference - A Dictionary of Law (9 ed.)|editor-last=Law|editor-first=Jonathan|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780191840807|year=2018}}</ref> Non-pecuniary damages are more closely correlated to what the state can afford to pay than the specific harm suffered by the complainant. In some cases, repeated patterns of human rights violations lead to higher awards in an effort to punish the responsible state, but paradoxically in other cases they lead to lower awards, or the cases being struck entirely.<ref name=Fikfak>{{cite journal |last1=Fikfak |first1=Veronika |title=Non-pecuniary damages before the European Court of Human Rights: Forget the victim; it's all about the state |journal=Leiden Journal of International Law |date=2020 |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=335–369 |doi=10.1017/S0922156520000035|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fikfak |first1=Veronika |title=Changing State Behaviour: Damages before the European Court of Human Rights |journal=European Journal of International Law |date=2018 |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=1091–1125 |doi=10.1093/ejil/chy064|doi-access=free}}</ref>