FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 1203/17
Lőrinc CSORDÁS and others against Hungary
and 7 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 13 December 2018 as a Committee composed of:
Georges Ravarani, President,
Marko Bošnjak,
Péter Paczolay, 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 other provisions of the Convention.
The Court received 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 17 January 2019.
Liv TigerstedtGeorges Ravarani
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/household
(in euros)[1]
1203/17
21/12/2016
(5 applicants)
Household
Lőrinc Csordás
06/04/1979
Lőrinc Istvánné Csordás
25/03/1953
Károlyné Viczinger
06/01/1923
Household
Gyula Tóth
18/08/1940
Gyuláné Tóth
19/07/1946
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings -
26/10/2018
25/07/2018
4,000
1394/17
22/12/2016
Sándor Fehér
14/03/1945
Ernszt János
Budapest
12/11/2018
13/07/2018
11,000
6195/17
13/01/2017
Lászlóné Maróti
11/12/1974
Péchy Kristóf
Budapest
10/11/2018
26/07/2018
3,000
44809/17
13/06/2017
Hedvig Mária Mészárosné Bende
14/11/1960
Gál Zoltán
Székesfehérvár
12/11/2018
13/07/2018
13,000
62945/17
21/08/2017
Csilla Mezővári
04/01/1965
Kuchár Zoltán
Budapest
12/11/2018
27/06/2018
5,000
70382/17
19/12/2013
László Kliment
04/08/1930
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings -
25/10/2018
07/02/2018
7,000
74046/17
11/10/2017
Zsuzsanna Szalai
15/07/1969
Szűcs Andrea
Budapest
25/10/2018
10/07/2018
5,000
77095/17
27/10/2017
Edit Siba
30/12/1951
Szabó-Nagy Péter
Budapest
24/10/2018
03/10/2018
12,000
[1]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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