The European Convention on Human Rights and additional protocols are result of international studies in the institutionalization of a supra-national assurance system in terms of human rights. According to the convention, this assurance should be provided by the European Human Rights Commission and the European Court of Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights, which is the most important judicial assurance, is established by the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides legal recourse for individuals who feel that their human rights have been violated by a contracting party to the Convention and evaluates recourses under certain conditions. If the concept of the certain conditions which was given above, is need to be explained; in determining the court’s authority it is limited and classified in terms of location, subject, person and time. The subject of this study is the time authority of the European Court of Human Rights which is the one of major headings.