SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 9319/24
Frigyes Józsefné KERTI and Others against Hungary
and 2 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 21 November 2024 as a Committee composed of:
Davor Derenčinović, President,
Gediminas Sagatys,
Stéphane Pisani, judges,
and Attila Teplán, 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 applicants were represented by Mr V. Kodela, a lawyer practising in Budapest.
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”).
The Court received friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, 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 12 December 2024.
Attila Teplán Davor Derenčinović
Acting Deputy Registrar President
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
Year of birth
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
(in euros)[1]
9319/24
18/03/2024
(59 applicants)
Frigyes Józsefné KERTI
1956
Lászlóné BALLAGÓ
1942
Nóra BERENDI
1952
Árpád BLUHON
1981
Krisztina BLUHON
1973
Klára BOCSÁK
1984
Gyula Lászlóné BODA
1946
Ildikó BODA
1967
Beatrix BOGNÁR
1964
Cornelia Elizabeth BRUNNER
1958
Ildikó CSONTOSNÉ POPOVICS
1967
Krisztina EKE-TÓTH
1983
Krisztina FODORNÉ MAGYAR
1975
Julianna FOGDNÉ GARAI
1957
Ágnes FRANK
1970
Katalin GÁHOR
1982
Ernő GOSCHLER
1952
Gergelyné HORVÁTH
1953
Istvánné HRUSTINSZKI
1948
Béláné HUSZTI
1966
Viktória KARDOS-BLUHON
1979
István Antalné KÉKI
1974
Csaba KERTI
1977
Brigitta KLEM
1979
Ferenc Antalné KLEM
1952
Károly Józsefné KOSZPER
1958
Ágnes Rozália KOVÁCSNÉ VÍG
1949
Györgyné KRIZSÁN
1943
József Gyuláné LÁDONYI
1959
Péter MAGYAR
1981
Attila MAKOVECZ
1965
Istvánné MAKOVECZ
1940
Teodóra MAKOVECZ
1968
János MALEK
1958
Zsuzsanna Mária METZGER-TOMEK
1954
Erika MOLNÁR
1960
Zoltán Béláné MUCSI
1950
Márta Ágnes MÜLLER
1964
Csaba István NAGY
1962
Ildikó NAGY
1964
Tiborné NAGY
1955
Zsófia NAGY
1990
Éva Borbála NEMES
1947
László NYERS
1954
Márk PELIKÁN
1981
Ibolya PELIKÁNNÉ LENGYEL
1956
Ildikó Judit PETŐNÉ KÉKESI
1962
Miklós SAMAI
1962
Gézáné SÁTOR
1951
Ilona Borbála SOÓS
1937
Éva Erzsébet SULLAY
1947
Gyuláné SULYOK
1944
Gabriella SZEMEREY
1960
Ferenc SZONDI
1948
Zoltán TAKÁCS
1956
Aranka VAJDÁNÉ CSORDÁS
1943
Erzsébet VÉSZICSNÉ JUHÁSZ
1952
Gyuláné VIZI
1967
Gáborné VLAJK
1960
Kodela Viktor
Budapest
31/10/2024
04/07/2024
2,000
18313/24
19/06/2024
(34 applicants)
Máté SCHOPPER
1985
Attila Sándor ASZTALOS
1940
Piroska BONCSÉR
1950
Andrea CSERINÉ BALOGH
1968
István CSORDÁS
1948
György Győzőné GAJDOS
1969
János HÉRINCS
1947
Károlyné HUBER
1944
Imre IVANOVICS
1954
Éva JANES
1959
Emília KINCSES
1947
Lajos KOVÁCS
1949
Mihály Árpád LELOVICS
1940
György János LITAUSZKI
1956
Judit LÓRÁNTFY
1968
Zoltán István MARÁCZI
1958
Lajosné MENTES
1931
István NAGY
1979
Józsefné NAGY
1942
János Sándorné NIKODÉM
1950
József Pálné PETRIK
1941
Béla István PILÁT
1952
László János ROZMÁN
1961
István SAMU
1946
Dániel SAS
1989
Máté SAS
1994
Tamás SAS
1964
Tamás SEIGERSCHMIDT
1992
Attila SILLE
1972
István SIMON
1936
Imréné SZABÓ
1942
Andrea SZORCSIKNÉ BORISZ
1976
Judit VARJASI
1968
László Józsefné WALCZ
1947
Kodela Viktor
Budapest
24/10/2024
21/10/2024
2,000
18755/24
21/06/2024
(45 applicants)
Zoltán MAGYAR
1951
Gábor Tamás ALSZÁSZY
1969
Erzsébet BALOGNÉ SZABÓ
1959
Terézia BÁRDOS
1943
Ilona BECSEI
1943
Anikó BÉRES
1974
Imre BROGYÁNYI
1969
Zsolt BROGYÁNYI
1971
Kálmán BUÚS
1981
Attila Dénes DEBRECZENI
1989
Kinga Katalin DEBRECZENI
1995
József DEMETER
1954
Istvánné DONOVITZ
1932
Béláné FARKAS
1939
Norbert FAZEKAS
1986
Gábor FEHÉR
1966
Gábor FIAS
1967
Tiborné GÁL
1948
Pálné GAZDIK
1937
Tibor GULÁCSI
1972
Viktória HARASZTINÉ GULÁCSI
1967
Miklósné HORVÁTH
1937
Gábor HRUSTINSZKI
1975
Jenőné HUSZKA
1935
Zsolt KAJTÁR
1967
Éva Henrietta KARÁDI
1951
Péter Tamás KENDERESY
1980
Péter KÉTHELYI
1953
Csilla KISS
1966
Gergely Ferenc KLEM
1982
Péter KOBZA
1979
Gyula KURUCZ
1963
Miklós LISSA
1963
Andrea MÉSZÁROS
1968
Klára MICHELLER
1951
Károlyné MOLNÁR
1939
Attiláné NÉMETH
1966
Józsefné PELLER
1950
László SEPRÜS
1943
Mihályné SZABÓ
1940
Sándorné SZABÓ
1962
Endre Sándorné SZILÁGYI
1937
András SZUNYOGH
1949
Rita TÓTHNÉ SANDI
1968
Károlyné VEHOCZKI
1952
Kodela Viktor
Budapest
24/10/2024
21/10/2024
2,000
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.