FIFTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 16407/09
Viktor Sergiyovych GRYSHKO against Ukraine
and 5 other applications
(see list appended)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 28 April 2016 as a Committee composed of:
André Potocki, President,
Ganna Yudkivska,
Síofra O’Leary, judges,
and Hasan Bakırcı, 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 is set out in the appended table.
The second and the sixth applicants were represented respectively by Mr V. P. Kononenko, a lawyer practising in Kharkiv and Mr V. A. Korenga, a lawyer practising in Lutsk.
The applicants’ complaints under Articles 6 § 1 and 13 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of criminal proceedings and the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law were communicated to the Ukrainian 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 Ukraine 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 19 May 2016.
Hasan BakırcıAndré Potocki
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant name
Date of birth
Representative name and location
Other complaints under well-established case-law
Date of receipt of Government 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]
16407/09
16/02/2009
Viktor Sergiyovych GRYSHKO
19/07/1964
Prot. 4 Art. 2 (1) - Excessive length of obligation not to abscond
14/01/2016
25/11/2015
5,500
26165/11
07/04/2011
Ivan Grygorovych PASHCHENKO
08/01/1985
Kononenko Valeriy Petrovych
Kharkiv
Prot. 4 Art. 2 (1) - Excessive length of obligation not to abscond
14/01/2016
13/11/2015
4,700
27266/13
16/04/2013
Volodymyr Mykolayovych KHOMYAK
31/03/1960
Prot. 4 Art. 2 (1) - Excessive length of obligation not to abscond
14/01/2016
13/11/2015
4,700
71906/13
16/10/2013
Olga Ivanivna BALATSKA
22/02/1962
Prot. 4 Art. 2 (1) - Excessive length of obligation not to abscond
14/01/2016
04/01/2016
600
33792/14
18/04/2014
Oleg Andriyovych BARTUSYAK
02/02/1988
15/01/2016
24/11/2015
1,200
58917/14
20/08/2014
Valeriy Sergiyovych SYTNYK
20/06/1964
Korenga Viktor Anatoliyovych
Lutsk
15/01/2016
12/10/2015
4,800
[i] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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