FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 36125/15
Miklós DOMANICZKY against Hungary
and 8 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 29 November 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 20 December 2018.
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 /
Date of registration
Representative’s name and location
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]
36125/15
04/08/2015
Miklós Domaniczky
20/02/1954
03/10/2018
12/06/2018
12,000
40497/15
06/08/2015
(33 applicants)
Household
György Péter Babay
21/02/1952
György Péterné Babay
01/03/1953
Ilona Bognár
01/09/1930
Éva Botykainé Koszorús
07/04/1967
Péterné Budizsa
23/01/1943
Anikó Cserháti
13/03/1968
Lajos Davidovics
06/06/1932
Éva Garamvölgyi
25/02/1970
Kinga Jakobovits
07/03/1955
Emma Káposztásné Szabó
26/10/1958
Ilona Kling
16/10/1943
Györgyi Kökény
20/12/1964
Istvánné Kovácsik
01/10/1942
Edit Kuruczné Sashegyi
27/10/1946
Elisabeta Sachs
09/12/1943
Ferenc Samu
16/02/1964
Mária Julianna Sárközi
11/07/1945
László Sashegyi
20/04/1950
Tamás Szilák
17/07/1963
József Szirt
17/07/1945
Andrea Tasi
23/12/1970
Edit Zágori
22/09/1951
Tiborné Zsiga
12/09/1958
Household
Lajosné Davidovics
06/09/1933
Bernadett Zsófia Dubovszky
10/01/1975
Household
Andras Kelemen
06/01/1943
Andrásné Kelemen
11/07/1944
Household
Ferenc Mátrai
26/01/1943
Márta Margit Mátrainé Ecsédi
26/01/1943
Household
József Veroszta
16/06/1949
Józsefné Veroszta
08/10/1950
Household
Robert Friedenthal
10/05/1949
Róbertné Friedenthal
05/06/1951
Fülöp Sándor
Budapest
27/09/2018
22/06/2018
6,800
42518/15
19/08/2015
Gabriella Anna Éles
31/01/1957
Attila Levente Petrovics
13/12/1982
Mihalics Krisztián
Budapest
18/09/2018
26/04/2018
4,000
44721/15
26/08/2015
Io Számítástechnikai, Szolgáltató És Kereskedelmi Kft
08/06/1998
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
10/10/2018
12/06/2018
7,000
49120/15
02/10/2015
László Gorove
12/04/1957
19/09/2018
14/06/2018
3,000
53267/15
15/10/2015
Éva Semjéni
09/04/1965
Cech András
Budapest
10/10/2018
05/09/2018
3,000
61113/15
20/11/2015
Violetta Eszter Fodor
09/10/1972
01/10/2018
25/07/2018
3,500
4589/16
29/12/2015
Zoltán Bakos
31/08/1946
24/09/2018
13/07/2018
10,000
13394/16
31/03/2016
Ferenc Iby
03/08/1957
10/10/2018
11/05/2018
3,000
[1]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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