FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 55000/14
HOMOLA against Hungary
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 27 September 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 Article 13 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 18 October 2018.
Liv TigerstedtGeorges Ravarani
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
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]
55000/14
31/07/2014
Household
Lászlóné Homola
30/06/1947
László Homola
26/10/1954
Somogyi Orsolya
Budapest
10/08/2018
04/04/2018
3,000
58824/14
21/08/2014
Ildikó Anett Balogh
23/01/1978
Erzsébet Kocsis
11/07/1972
24/08/2018
13/03/2018
3,000
59023/14
21/08/2014
Krisztina Nagy
22/10/1981
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings -
27/08/2018
26/02/2018
3,000
59971/14
27/08/2014
Tamás Czapp
28/06/1968
Péchy Kristóf
Budapest
27/08/2018
17/04/2018
2,600
72798/14
07/11/2014
Beáta Orbánné Szigeti
03/12/1966
Barna Ágota
Budapest
31/08/2018
15/03/2018
12,000
76261/14
02/12/2014
Ildikó Kocsisné László
19/05/1947
Erdőné Rigó Ágnes
Budapest
28/08/2018
31/05/2018
2,000
78061/14
05/12/2014
Akarat Diáksport Egyesület
Akarat Gyógysportklub Kft.
Gyene István
Budapest
16/08/2018
12/03/2018
3,000
78141/14
16/12/2014
(5 applicants)
János Tardi
20/02/1952
Katalin Tardi
12/12/1980
Household
László Sebők
16/11/1976
Lászlóné Sebők
08/01/1950
Nikoletta Sebők
17/11/1978
28/08/2018
25/05/2018
800
78172/14
12/12/2014
Katalin Galovics
11/05/1948
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings -
22/08/2018
08/03/2018
11,000
6211/15
22/01/2015
Ferenc Zsiga
17/04/1936
Arató Balázs
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings -
31/08/2018
24/05/2018
5,000
[1]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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