FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 25680/19
István LÉVAI against Hungary
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 3 September 2020 as a Committee composed of:
Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, President,
Georges Ravarani,
Jolien Schukking, 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 the 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 24 September 2020.
Liv TigerstedtStéphanie Mourou-Vikström
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
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
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]
25680/19
30/04/2019
István LÉVAI
03/01/1953
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
08/11/2019
09/07/2020
2,600
37426/19
26/06/2019
(15 applicants)
Andras BALOGH
28/02/1967
István DEÁK
27/12/1966
László István KOMÁROMI
24/07/1947
István SZÖLLŐSI
30/06/1953
Gáborné SZILÁGYI
18/02/1951
Zoltán Gábor FRIK
20/09/1981
Lajos FEHÉR
09/09/1953
József Sándor SZÁNTÓ
29/03/1948
László KOVÁCS
11/01/1949
Tamás SZEPESVÁRI
02/06/1957
Irén BELÉNYESI
20/08/1949
Györgyné DIVIKI
17/07/1947
Zsuzsanna NAGY
10/06/1976
János CSABAI
09/09/1951
Gábor SÖMÉNYI
02/05/1949
T. Tóth Balázs
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
12/06/2020
05/03/2020
2,000
47786/19
04/09/2019
Ferenc József SCHINDLER
10/01/1957
06/07/2020
10/03/2020
3,900
52642/19
30/09/2019
Gyula György POMPOR
01/08/1968
Zsolnay Klára
Budapest
02/03/2020
23/06/2020
6,500
56918/19
24/10/2019
Éva TÖRÖKNÉ BUSAI
12/05/1966
Váczi Péter
Győr
10/02/2020
19/06/2020
11,700
62107/19
06/11/2019
Household
Krisztina BARANYAI
31/12/1975
Sean Ian WHITE
28/02/1965
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
30/06/2020
22/05/2020
3,300
62341/19
27/11/2019
László MIKULINSZKI
27/05/1972
Lehőcz József
Tatabánya
22/04/2020
10/06/2020
5,200
64538/19
11/12/2019
Anita TURI
20/08/1966
Juhász Zsuzsanna
Budapest
18/06/2020
26/06/2020
5,200
8021/20
28/01/2020
István FLAUTNER
29/11/1946
Baltay Levente
Gyál
30/06/2020
15/07/2020
9,100
10346/20
14/02/2020
Mária TÓTHNÉ KOVÁCS
31/10/1968
15/07/2020
15/07/2020
3,900
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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