FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 30025/18
Jánosné CSÍK against Hungary
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 12 September 2019 as a Committee composed of:
Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, President,
Georges Ravarani,
Jolien Schukking, judges,
and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the cases,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of applicants and their representatives is set out in the appended table.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings were communicated to the Hungarian Government (“the Government”). In some of the applications, complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under Article 13 of the Convention.
The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Hungary in respect of the facts giving rise to these applications, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amounts detailed in the appended table. These amounts will be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the Court’s decision. In the event of failure to pay these amounts within the above-mentioned three‑month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on them, from the expiry of that period until settlement, at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points.
The payment will constitute the final resolution of the cases.
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.
The Court takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the parties. It is satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the applications.
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 3 October 2019.
Liv TigerstedtStéphanie Mourou-Vikström
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil proceedings)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Date of birth
Representative’s name and location
Other complaints under well-established case-law
Date of receipt of Government’s declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses per applicant
(in euros)[i]
30025/18
19/06/2018
Jánosné Csík
02/02/1959
18/04/2019
18/02/2019
3,500
30623/18
22/06/2018
Ferenc József Speidl
07/07/1950
Füredi Péter
Pécs
09/05/2019
10/05/2019
9,000
44112/18
12/09/2018
Béla Jánosné Horváth
11/10/1958
Juhász Zsuzsanna
Budapest
06/03/2019
16/05/2019
5,000
55864/18
20/11/2018
László Roczkó
11/06/1952
Nemess Livia
Budapest
04/06/2019
31/05/2019
14,300
56085/18
22/11/2018
Andrea Bihácsiné Bokor
27/04/1968
Horváthné Nagy Ildikó
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law against the protraction of civil proceedings.
27/06/2019
17/05/2019
6,500
57697/18
24/11/2018
Attila Gregor
16/07/1965
Kőfalvi Balázs
Budapest
10/05/2019
10/05/2019
2,000
535/19
17/12/2018
András Imre Jójárt
27/03/1953
Sziklai János
Budapest
29/05/2019
28/05/2019
15,600
5460/19
12/01/2019
Jánosné Bernhardt
12/10/1966
Urbánné Csató Julianna
Budapest
24/06/2019
11/06/2019
3,900
6258/19
21/01/2019
Zsuzsanna Gulyás
11/11/1963
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law against the protraction of the civil proceedings.
24/06/2019
14/05/2019
9,100
12913/19
02/03/2019
Tamásné Pribelszky
30/06/1953
Béres Norbert
Budapest
28/05/2019
23/05/2019
6,500
[i]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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