Communicated on 14 September 2017
FIRST SECTION
Application no. 9849/15
Mirjana MARIĆ against Croatia
and 3 other applications
(see list appended)
STATEMENT OF FACTS
The applicants are Croatian nationals. For the applicants’ personal details, the names of their representatives and the details regarding the length of the impugned proceedings see the table annexed below.
COMPLAINTS
1. The applicants complain under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention about the length of the proceedings.
2. Relying on Article 13 of the Convention, the applicants in the applications no. 9849/15 and 38943/15 also complain that they did not have an effective remedy in respect of their complaints concerning the excessive length of proceedings.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Was the length of the proceedings in the applicants’ cases in breach of the “reasonable time” requirement under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention?
CASE-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
Did the applicants in the applications no. 9849/15 and 38943/15 have an effective remedy for their length complaints, as required by Article 13 thereof (see, for example, Cocchiarella v. Italy [GC] no. 64886/01, §§ 74-76, ECHR 2006‑V)?
APPENDIX
No.
Application
no.
Lodged on
Applicant name
date of birth
Represented by
Type of proceedings
Period to be taken into consideration
(and number of instances)
Completed
or
pending
1.
9849/15
19/02/2015
Mirjana Marić
19/08/1951
Zoran Novaković
Civil proceedings
Four years
before two instances
completed
(21 March 2017)
2.
38943/15
31/07/2015
Mohamed Salameh
22/10/1961
Lidija Horvat
Two sets of civil proceedings*
Five years and four months
before two instances
pending
3.
9869/17
25/01/2017
Dušan Horvatin
23/10/1974
N/A
Civil proceedings
Four years and four months
before two instances
pending
4.
29525/17
10/04/2017
Vikica Baltić and three others
05/08/1961
Tomislav Špehar
Civil proceedings
Four years and four months
before two instances
pending
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