THIRD SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 47785/07
Gheorghe BALLAI against Romania
and 3 other applications
(see list appended)
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 16 December 2014 as a Committee composed of:
Luis López Guerra, President,
Johannes Silvis,
Valeriu Griţco, judges,
and Marialena Tsirli, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The applicants’ names and other details, as well as the date of lodging and the date of communication to the Government of each application are specified in the appended table.
The Romanian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ms Catrinel Brumar, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 and Article 1 Protocol No. 1 of the Convention were communicated to the Government, who submitted their observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicants, who were invited to submit within six weeks their claims for just satisfaction under Article 41. The applicants were notified that they needed to inform the Court, within the same time limit, if they did not wish to submit just satisfaction claims; their attention was drawn to Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, which provides that the Court may strike a case out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicants do not intend to pursue the application. No reply was received to the Registry’s letters. Moreover, since the communication of their applications, the applicants did not contact the Court, nor did they show any other sign of interest as regards the proceedings concerning their cases.
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to join them in a single decision.
The Court considers that, in these circumstances, the applicants may be regarded as no longer wishing to pursue their applications, within the meaning of Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention. Furthermore, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 in fine, the Court finds no special circumstances regarding respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols which require the continued examination of the cases.
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases.
Marialena TsirliLuis López Guerra
Deputy RegistrarPresident
Appendix
No.
Application No.
Date of lodging
Date of communication to the Government
Applicant
Date of birth
47785/07
24/10/2007
27/01/2011
Gheorghe BALLAI
22/02/1932
28646/08
06/12/2007
14/02/2014
Dorina Adriana OLARIU
28/07/1956
43226/08
27/08/2008
02/09/2010
Elena VASILE
05/05/1928
49291/09
01/09/2009
14/02/2014
Romeo LEFTER
06/09/1967
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