Published on 10 January 2022
FIFTH SECTION
Application no. 37800/19
Rada KOCHOVSKA and Others against North Macedonia
and 5 other applications
(see list appended)
communicated on 14 December 2021
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applications concern the length of bankruptcy proceedings, which the Supreme Court found to have violated the reasonable-time requirement under Article 6 of the Convention and awarded the applicants monetary redress. The applicants complain that the amount of compensation awarded to them was low and that the Supreme Court did not issue an acceleration order requesting the lower courts to decide the case expeditiously.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
1. Was the length of the bankruptcy proceedings in the present case in breach of the “reasonable time” requirement as guaranteed by Article 6 § 1 of the Convention (see, for example, Frydlender v. France [GC], no. 30979/96, § 43, 27 June 2000, Mitkova v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, no. 48386/09, § 50, 15 October 2015 and Eftimov v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, no. 59974/08, § 30, 2 July 2015)?
2. In view of the amount of compensation awarded by the Supreme Court, did the applicants have at their disposal an effective domestic remedy for their complaint under Article 6 § 1, as required by Article 13 of the Convention (see, for example, Marshall and Others v. Malta, no. 79177/16, § 82, 11 February 2020)?
APPENDIX
No.
Application no.
Lodged on
Applicant
Year of Birth
Represented by
No. of instances
Length
Outcome of the domestic length remedy before the Supreme Court
1.
37800/19
10/07/2019
Rada KOCHOVSKA
1960
Katerina MASEVSKA
1947
Mile BOZHINOVSKI
1969
Danche CHAKAROVSKA-GROZDANOVSKA
Two
11 years 9 months and 10 days
Awarded MKD 10,000 (EUR 163) each. No acceleration of the proceedings
2.
7849/20
29/01/2020
Spomenka SHTERJOVA
1962
Slavica MITEVSKA
1960
Neda JANKOVSKA
1955
Olgica CHIPLAKOVSKA
1948
Svetlana GJORGJOVSKA
1961
Mile GJORGJIEVSKI
1951
Mirjana ATANASOVSKA
1966
Hristo STOICOV
1944
Katica BLAZHEVSKA
1952
12 years and 9 days
3.
10675/20
13/02/2020
Srebra TERZIKJ
1953
Vesa NIKOLOVSKA
1955
Zhivka JAKIMOVSKA
1949
Dragica MLADENOSKA
1953
Mitka STOILKOVSKA
1958
Mirsija DAZDAREVIKJ
1956
Ilina VOLCHESKA
1947
Vera HRISTOVSKA
1951
Evto KRSTESKI
1948
Slavica KRSTESKA
1953
12 years and 2 days
4.
12351/20
28/02/2020
Janinka STOJKOSKA
1952
Daile PITARKA
1956
Violeta KUZMANOVSKA
1960
Biljana NIKOLOVSKA
1954
Vera SIMEONOVA
1954
Rushka STANKOVSKA
1952
Bozhana SIMONOVSKA
Blagoja DIMOVSKI
1946
Milko MILADINOVSKI
1962
11 years 9 months and 24 days
5.
13225/20
05/03/2020
Marija MICKOVSKA
1950
Vrosija CVETANOSKA
1948
Nada ANGJELOVIKJ
1951
Dafinka RADESKA
1952
Verka MARKOVSKA
1956
Ljuba LAZAREVSKA
1957
Lenka PANEVSKA
1952
Zora JANCHEVA
1955
11 years 9 months and 24 days
6.
14350/20
10/03/2020
Snezhana NICHOVA
1962
Ilinka STAMATOVSKA
1961
Slobodan SAVESKI
1970
Srebra KRSTOSKA
1950
Dragica STAMKOVA
1950
Varka BOZHINOVSKA
1955
Zvonko RISTESKI
1968
Dragi STOJANOVSKI
1960
Aco TRAJKOVSKI
1960
11 years 9 months and 24 days