Published on 10 January 2022
FIFTH SECTION
Application no. 37805/19
Stojanka MILEVSKA and Others against North Macedonia
and 7 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
List of applications
No.
Application no.
Lodged on
Applicant
Year of Birth
Place of Residence
Represented by
No. of instances
Length
Outcome of the domestic length remedy before the Supreme Court
1.
37805/19
10/07/2019
Stojanka MILEVSKA
1951
Skopje
Vladanka ANGELOVSKA
1955
Skopje
Marika PEJOSKA
1949
Skopje
Mare MIRCHESKA
1959
Skopje
Kiro MIRCHESKI
1958
Skopje
Ljubica STEFANOVSKA
1963
Skopje
Dobrinka BLAZHEVSKA
1958
Skopje
Verica GEROVSKA
1961
Skopje
Persa PANEVSKA
1954
Skopje
Dafa KOSTOVA
1957
Skopje
Liljana RISTOVSKA
1961
Skopje
Todorche TODEVSKI
1968
Skopje
Danche CHAKAROVSKA-GROZDANOVSKA
Two
11 years 9 months and 24 days
Awarded MKD 10,000 (EUR 163) each. No acceleration of the proceedings.
2.
7537/20
27/01/2020
Trajanka STOJANOVSKA
1949
Skopje
Dragica PAVLOVSKA
1949
Skopje
Ljubica ANTONOVA
1956
Skopje
Dimitrija MARINCHEVSKI
1948
Skopje
Sasho TRAJANOVSKI
1966
Skope
Zora DIMOVSKA
1949
Skopje
Gjorgji SHTERJOV
1956
Skopje
Grana PANCHEVSKA
1960
Skopje
Lozanka MARKOVIKJ
1951
Skopje
Ubavka GJIREVSKA
1962
Skopje
Two
12 years and 9 days
3.
7846/20
31/01/2020
Zoran ANASTASOV
1962
Skopje
Menka ILIOSKA
1954
Skopje
Risto PETKOVSKI
1942
Skopje
Mile ALEKSOVSKI
1955
Dono Lisiche
Zorica ALEKSOVSKA
1960
Skopje
Borche VANESKI
1960
Skopje
Donka IVANOVA
1949
Skopje
Two
12 years and 9 days
4.
9162/20
10/02/2020
Zhivka TANEVSKA
1952
Skopje
Blage STOJANOVSKI
1949
Skopje
Blagica CHAVKOSKA
1949
Krivogashtani
Anka SAVESKA
1946
Skopje
Zoran KRSTEVSKI
1956
Skopje
Bona JOVANOVSKA
1959
Skopje
Jagoda MIHAJLOSKA
1958
Skopje
Lidija GROZDANOVSKA
1960
Skopje
Two
12 years and 2 days
5.
12110/20
25/02/2020
Zara BOZHINOVSKA
1946
Creshevo
Stojanka SMILESKA
1950
Skopje
Gordana PETKOVSKA
1964
Skopje
Two
12 years and 9 days
6.
13335/20
03/03/2020
Pavlina RISTESKA
1963
Skopje
Dafinka MITROVSKA
1946
Skopje
Igor MALCEV
1969
Skopje
Kjamil JAKUPI
1947
Skopje
Kosara NIKOLOVSKA
Born: 1948
Deceased: 2021
Skopje
Succeeded by her son
Martin NIKOLOVSKI
1984
Skopje
Petar PREMCHESKI
1942
Skopje
Cvetanka DUMALOSKA
1954
Skopje
Dimitar CVETANOSKI
1941
Skopje
Vesna NIKOLOVA
1956
Skopje
Two
11 years 9 months and 24 days
7.
14511/20
13/03/2020
Violeta VELICHKOVSKA
1963
Stajkovci
Rosana KRSTEVSKA
1957
Stajkovci
Cveta BOZHINOVSKA
1955
Stajkovci
Zhaklina DONEVSKA
1965
Skopje
Lepa BOGEVSKA
1966
Skopje
Violeta NESHIKJ
1964
Chucher
Bisera GJORGJEVIKJ
1967
Skopje
Branko PETROVSKI
1966
Skopje
Spase FILIPOVSKI
1950
Skopje
Ilija STOJANOVSKI
1951
Skopje
Two
11 years 9 months and 24 days
8.
15660/20
23/03/2020
Olga PITROPOVSKA
1951
Skopje
Zhivka UGROVA
1951
Skopje
Olgica KOCEVSKA
1955
Skopje
Snezhanka GUDUMANOVSKA
1954
Skopje
Tomislav MILEVSKI
1966
Gradovci
Two
12 years 5 months and 3 days