FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 79747/13
Imre Benedek GYURICZA against Hungary
and 7 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on
22 March 2018 as a Committee composed of:
Vincent A. De Gaetano, President,
Georges Ravarani,
Marko Bošnjak, 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 criminal proceedings were communicated to the Hungarian Government (“the Government”).
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 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 12 April 2018.
Liv TigerstedtVincent A. De Gaetano
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant name
Date of birth
Representative name and location
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]
79747/13
17/12/2013
Imre Benedek Gyuricza
10/10/1950
15/02/2018
22/01/2018
5,000
63806/14
29/09/2014
Judit Zádori
22/09/1972
Hofszang József
Szeged
09/02/2018
02/01/2018
11,000
67100/14
30/09/2014
Gábor Hargitai-Fehér
15/11/1970
Révész Gabriella
Pécs
09/02/2018
15/11/2017
6,000
72793/14
11/11/2014
Gábor Németh
29/03/1977
Sáros Péter
Budapest
16/02/2018
30/01/2018
5,000
16411/15
27/03/2015
Tamás Zoltán Kiri
15/12/1977
Bene Zoltán
Szeged
14/02/2018
30/01/2018
3,000
17793/15
07/04/2015
Andreas Müller
09/03/1975
Ildikó Papp
29/01/1978
Borsos Tamás
Budapest
15/01/2018
03/01/2018
3,000
21703/15
21/04/2015
Sándor Kiss
10/02/1961
Koós László Zoltán
Debrecen
09/02/2018
13/11/2017
2,000
27040/15
28/05/2015
Ottó Horváth
11/04/1967
Kalló Péter
Budapest
09/02/2018
01/12/2017
2,000
. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
[i]
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