FOURTH SECTION
CASE OF PASCOI AND OTHERS v. ROMANIA
(Applications nos. 8675/06, 60826/10, 27616/11, 67634/11, 74155/13, 1152/14, 10538/14 and 41786/14)
JUDGMENT
(Revision)[1]
STRASBOURG
31 October 2017
This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision
In the case of Pascoi and Others v. Romania, (request for revision of the judgment of 7 January 2016),
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:
Vincent A. De Gaetano, President,
Egidijus Kūris,
Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, judges,
and Andrea Tamietti, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 10 October 2017,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in eight applications against Romania lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”). The applicants’ details and the dates of lodging of the applications are set out in the table enclosed as an annex to this judgment.
2. In a judgment delivered on 7 January 2016, the Court held that there had been a violation of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention on account of the non-enforcement or of the delayed enforcement of domestic judgments given in the applicants’ favour. The Court also decided that the respondent State shall ensure the enforcement of the domestic decisions concerned and award the applicants amounts varying between 1,200 and 3,600 euros (EUR) for non-pecuniary damage and EUR 15,000 for costs and expenses.
3. On 10 and 26 February and 21 March 2016 the Government informed the Court that they had learned that the applicants Ileana Pascoi, Ionel Stănescu, Gheorghe Podaru, Victor Soltuz-Mocanu, Dobre Ivan and Manole Grosu had died on 11 August 2011, 31 October 2010, 5 and 18 January 2015, 13 August 2015 and 6 May 2011 respectively. They accordingly requested revision of the judgment within the meaning of Rule 80 of the Rules of Court.
4. On 28 April 2016 the Court considered the request for revision and decided to give the applicants’ representatives three weeks in which to submit any observations. No reply had been received by the Court within the above-mentioned time-limit. In a letter of 13 July 2016 the Government informed the Court that they maintained their request for the revision of the judgment.
THE LAW
THE REQUEST FOR REVISION
5. Rule 80 of the Rules of Court states, in so far as relevant, as follows:
“A party may, in the event of the discovery of a fact which might by its nature have a decisive influence and which, when a judgment was delivered, was unknown to the Court and could not reasonably have been known to that party, request the Court ... to revise that judgment.
...”
6. The Government requested revision of the judgment of 7 January 2016, which they had been unable to execute because six of the applicants had died before the judgment had been adopted. They submitted that they became aware of this information only in February 2016. In their view, this ought to be considered a fact of decisive influence which was unknown when the judgment was delivered, within the meaning of Rule 80. Furthermore, neither the applicants’ representatives nor their legal heirs ever informed the Court about the applicants’ death or of their wish to pursue the proceedings on the applicants’ behalf before the delivery of the judgment. Therefore, the Government asked the Court to strike out the case from its list in respect of the deceased applicants and to amend accordingly the award given under Article 41 of the Convention.
7. The Court considers that the deaths of the above-mentioned applicants constitute indeed facts of “decisive influence” on the outcome of the judgment within the meaning of Rule 80 § 1.
8. The Court further takes note that the applicants in question had died before the Court adopted its judgment in the current case. However, their representatives did not inform the Court about the applicants’ death, nor have they indicated whether the legal heirs expressed their wish to pursue the proceedings on the applicants’ behalf. Furthermore, the Court is prepared to accept that these decisive facts could not reasonably have been expected to be known to the Government, who gained knowledge of the deaths of the applicants in February 2016 and filed the requests for revision of the judgment in February and March 2016, within the time-limit provided for in Rule 80.
9. In view of the above, the Court accepts the Government’s requests for revision of the judgment of 7 January 2016 (see, for instance and mutatis mutandis, Ciorcan and Others v. Romania, nos. 29414/09 and 44841/09, § 9, 17 January 2017).
10. The Court further recalls that it has been its practice to strike applications out of the list of cases in the absence of any heir or close relative who has expressed a wish to pursue the application (ibid., § 10). It further finds no special circumstances relating to respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols which require it to continue the examination of the application in respect of the applicants Ileana Pascoi, Ionel Stănescu, Gheorghe Podaru, Victor Soltuz-Mocanu, Dobre Ivan and Manole Grosu.
11. Accordingly, the applications should be struck out of the Court’s list of cases in so far as they relate to these applicants.
FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY,
1. Decides to revise the judgment in so far as it relates to the applicants Ileana Pascoi, Ionel Stănescu, Gheorghe Podaru, Victor Soltuz-Mocanu, Dobre Ivan and Manole Grosu;
2. Decides to strike the applications out of the list of cases in so far as they concern the complaints of the applicants Ileana Pascoi, Ionel Stănescu, Gheorghe Podaru, Victor Soltuz-Mocanu, Dobre Ivan and Manole Grosu.
Andrea TamiettiVincent A. De Gaetano
Deputy Section RegistrarPresident
ANNEX
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant name
Date of birth
Date of registration
8675/06
17/02/2006
Ileana PASCOI
01/07/1935
Elena HAVA
31/03/1936
60826/10
20/09/2010
(3 applicants)
Constantin RĂDOI
27/10/1944
Raluca Cristina
NEGREA GHEORGHIU
25/03/1975
Ioana Georgia Alexandra Mândra
GHEORGHIU NEGREA
06/07/1972
27616/11
22/04/2011
VECHEA ASOCIAȚIUNE FUNEBRALĂ ROMÂNĂ
(Old Romanian Funeral Association)
67634/11
17/10/2011
Elena POPA
12/09/1951
74155/13
16/11/2013
Zorița PISEK
12/01/1935
1152/14
19/12/2013
Ion DRAGOTOIU
13/04/1950
10538/14
23/01/2014
Maria UNGURU
13/08/1952
41786/14
27/05/2014
(188 applicants)
Petrică PODARU
14/11/1956
Viorel ANDREI
27/01/1967
Victor ANGHELATO
28/10/1974
Săndel ANTON
23/10/1969
Aurelia ARAMĂ
23/12/1961
Alecu ARBĂNAȘU
24/03/1957
Frusinica ARBĂNAȘU
02/03/1958
Florentin ARICIU
08/12/1956
Marian Costel AVRAM
30/07/1963
Dinel BĂCANU
01/07/1969
Fănica BĂDIN
29/07/1959
Gheorghe BĂDIN
08/06/1956
Leana BĂJENARU
09/11/1953
Daniel BĂLAN
28/09/1971
Angheluță BĂLUȚĂ
13/05/1962
Silvia BARBU
03/01/1969
Aurel BĂTRÂNU
20/06/1949
Dumitru BĂTRÂNU
07/09/1956
Ion BECU
02/08/1971
Constantin BÂȘCEANU
31/03/1955
Gheorghe BOBOC
20/10/1965
Dănuț BOGOS
29/05/1957
Marian BOITOS
22/03/1972
Ion BOLDEANU
18/11/1955
Florin-Radu BORTEANU
16/05/1950
Alexe BOTEA
02/08/1955
Vasile BRATU
04/06/1949
Nicu BUCUR
15/08/1950
George BUF
20/11/1950
Virgil BUF
19/12/1955
Ștefana BUF
20/02/1959
Ionica BUZOIANU
29/08/1965
Victor BUZOIANU
01/04/1957
Costel CĂLIN
03/06/1953
Elena CANCIU
16/01/1961
Gheorghe CANCIU
19/01/1958
Lilica Marinela CANCIU
06/06/1971
Ghiță CANDET
15/08/1946
Marian CÂRNU
21/05/1953
Voica CATRINA
10/05/1951
Mariana CERNAT
04/07/1967
Dinu CHIOREANU
20/05/1959
Victor CHIOREANU
14/11/1950
Florentin CHIȚOIU
13/01/1977
Octavian CHIȚOIU
12/12/1949
Vasile CHITOIU
20/10/1953
Matei CIOCÂRLAN
26/04/1957
Gheorghe COMĂNOIU
28/01/1952
Aurelian CONSTANTIN
29/04/1966
Constantin CONSTANTIN
16/09/1950
Maria CONSTANTIN
20/07/1954
Marinel CONSTANTIN
12/12/1955
Vasile CONSTANTIN
18/02/1969
Stănel Doru CRĂCIUN
22/08/1962
Vasile CRISTEA
26/09/1949
Rodica CUCU
10/09/1960
Liviu CULACHE
04/02/1971
Vasilică DARIE
05/11/1960
Gheorghe DECIANU
03/03/1956
Neculai DERMENGIU
07/05/1959
Fănel DIMA
21/09/1964
Florentina DINU
09/11/1974
Maria DINU
30/11/1957
Gigel DINULESCU
17/08/1952
Constantin DOBRE
02/04/1959
Tudorel DOBRE
25/11/1969
Victorița DOBRE
04/11/1968
Mariana DRĂGUȘANU
23/12/1967
Gheorghe DRĂGUȚ
22/08/1969
Gheorghe DOBROTĂ
21/08/1956
Maria Ecaterina DUDĂU
15/03/1953
Dumitru DUMINICĂ
01/01/1953
Valentin Adrian DUMITRU
05/08/1975
Cristache DURBACĂ
24/09/1970
Dorian DUȚU
31/01/1961
Ionel ENACHE
05/05/1971
Mihaela ENACHE
03/01/1973
Alexandru FLOREA
16/01/1958
Marin FRONEA
08/07/1949
Petrica FRONEA
05/09/1952
Victor GEREA
28/09/1955
Virginia GHELT
02/11/1967
Emilia GHILINȚĂ
18/01/1966
Iuliana GHIMPE
13/07/1961
Ilie GHINDĂ
05/05/1955
Mihaela-Adelina GHIONU
02/03/1977
Mihai GRIGORE
15/02/1959
Neculai GRIGORE
28/08/1956
Manole GROSU
22/03/1957
Leana CHIBURȚĂ
04/07/1960
Traian HAGIU
27/04/1954
Liliana HORNEȚ
04/06/1969
Marioara ICONARU
05/05/1958
Marioara ILIE
04/06/1965
Vasile ILIE
23/03/1960
Flavian-Ioan IONESCU
17/10/1971
Mădălina-Daniela IONIȚĂ
08/12/1967
Sorin IOSIF
30/04/1975
Camil IOVU
21/08/1962
Ion ISTRATI
13/10/1950
Valentina ISTRATI
16/01/1956
Dobre IVAN
28/12/1953
Stere JIRU
21/04/1964
Gheorghe LEOCĂ
18/02/1950
Radu LUPAȘCU
02/07/1955
Jan MANEA
20/07/1956
Petre MANEA
09/06/1959
Nicușor MARCU
25/11/1967
Mița MARIN
29/05/1958
Nicolae-Cicerone MATEI
20/05/1970
Cristina-Maria STAICU
14/05/1979
Fănica MERIȘOR
16/03/1956
Carmen Gina MIHAI
24/04/1964
Constantin MIHALACHE
27/06/1956
Vasile MILEA
29/02/1952
Marinela MIRCEA
23/12/1964
Ene MIRON
06/10/1956
Petrică MITITELU
25/05/1962
Adrian MOCANU
19/12/1966
Nicu MOISE
01/05/1975
Ștefan-Giorgel MOISOIU
23/11/1970
Florentina MOTOC
28/05/1972
Florica MOTOC
29/05/1950
Milică MUMJIEV
02/09/1955
Aurel MUREȘANU
20/08/1956
Neculița NEACȘU
17/06/1955
Nicușoara NEAGU
14/11/1952
Radu NEAGU
15/10/1949
Ion NECULAI
14/12/1970
Lucia Daniela NEGRIȘAN (MOCANU)
02/08/1968
Dumitru NICA
09/05/1956
Gheorghe NISTOR
10/10/1965
Cristinel NIȚĂ
26/02/1973
Rodica NOGHEA
08/04/1957
Ionel OANCEA
02/05/1957
Ion PANTELIMON
01/02/1955
Ion PĂTRĂNOIU
27/03/1949
Demetra-Diana PĂVĂLACHE
02/09/1969
Ioana PETCU
04/02/1952
Toma PETCU
31/05/1953
Adrian PETREA
16/03/1964
Vasile PÂRLOG
30/07/1951
Gheorghe PODARU
22/01/1971
Virginia PODARU
22/03/1963
Paraschiv POPA
25/02/1967
Mihalcea POPESCU
19/10/1956
Tănțel PORCUȚ
27/06/1969
Gheorghe POTÂNGĂ
08/04/1954
Florin PUIU
28/01/1974
Marian PURCĂREA
23/10/1970
Toma PURICE
06/11/1956
Costică RĂDULESCU
26/09/1970
Răducan RĂDULESCU
02/06/1950
Vasilică RĂFOIU
27/02/1962
Valeriu Cezar ROBITU
08/12/1975
Mioara ROȘU
30/10/1966
Florentin SECHEL
04/12/1967
Flavian ȘERBAN
11/07/1962
Ionel ȘERBAN
02/09/1969
Victor SOLTUZ MOCANU
29/09/1964
Petrică STAICU
30/09/1959
Cătălin STAMATE
20/06/1972
Viorel STAMATE
08/07/1967
Viorel STAN
18/03/1965
Ionica STANCIU (VASILE)
28/03/1971
Ionel STĂNESCU
03/07/1966
Viorica ȘTIRBEI
22/08/1967
Lucian STOIAN
27/07/1957
Marian STOIAN
17/02/1960
Marin STOICA
01/10/1958
Virgil TĂBÂRCĂ
03/11/1947
Dobre TĂNASE
09/10/1950
Tache TATU
07/05/1953
Ion TOADER
04/02/1957
Neculina LUPU
14/06/1970
Fănica TRIFU
03/12/1966
Nicolaie TUDOR
13/12/1947
Ionică TUDOR
18/01/1952
Liliana URSE
28/07/1961
Daniela VASILE
06/11/1967
Fănica VLAD
24/08/1961
Cristian VOICU
10/02/1961
Ionuţ VOICU
14/11/1980
Mariana VOICU
01/01/1961
George ZAINEA
23/10/1958
Iuliana ZECA
22/04/1968
Costică VLAD
01/12/1960
Mohamed MOUMENE
28/06/1959
[1]. Revision of the judgment of 7 January 2016.
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