FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 30122/15
Zsolt ILLÉS against Hungary
and 8 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 24 May 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”). In some of the applications, complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under other provisions 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 14 June 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
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
(in euros)[i]
30122/15
15/06/2015
Zsolt Illés
28/05/1981
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings -
11/04/2018
15/11/2017
7,000
49791/15
01/10/2015
Károly Csaplár
05/11/1972
Tóth M. Gábor
Budapest
04/04/2018
27/03/2018
6,000
53445/15
21/10/2015
Valéria Viszlóczkiné Talabos
05/05/1967
Jaczkovits Zita
Nyíregyháza
16/04/2018
12/01/2018
3,000
9576/16
11/02/2016
Béla Paksai
02/10/1976
Borsos Tamás
Budapest
25/04/2018
08/01/2018
2,000
20492/16
08/04/2016
Ádám Éliás
05/04/1950
Nyári Béla Attila
Budapest
17/04/2018
09/01/2018
3,000
22181/16
14/04/2016
Gábor Farkas
20/04/1947
Nagy Judit Szilvia
Budapest
16/04/2018
03/04/2018
13,000
22989/16
18/04/2016
Sándor Gergics
09/02/1960
Borsos Tamás
Budapest
25/04/2018
08/01/2018
6,000
50938/17
30/09/2013
István Komády
10/12/1953
Palásti Marianne
Budapest
24/11/2017
09/01/2018
5,000
70400/17
25/03/2013
Sándor Zoltán Farnadi
02/02/1962
Károly HUSZÁR
10/09/1967
Borsos Tamás
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings -
25/04/2018
08/01/2018
2,000
[i]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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