FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 9947/15
Sándor MURAI against Hungary
and 10 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 13 December 2018 as a Committee composed of:
Georges Ravarani, President,
Marko Bošnjak,
Péter Paczolay, 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 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 17 January 2019.
Liv TigerstedtGeorges Ravarani
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 /
Date of registration
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
(in euros)[1]
9947/15
13/02/2015
Sándor Murai
22/03/1961
Mihalics Krisztián
Budapest
08/11/2018
20/06/2018
1,500
32637/15
26/06/2015
József Róbertné Kovács
01/08/1963
Czirmes György
Budapest
08/11/2018
12/06/2018
6,000
36613/16
20/06/2016
Ferenc Józsefné Likavcsán
09/05/1954
Kéki Zita Zsuzsanna
Budapest
08/11/2018
10/07/2018
11,000
42899/16
18/07/2016
Szilvia Kassa
08/12/1981
Béla SZANYI
18/01/1940
Barbalics István
Budapest
19/11/2018
04/07/2018
12,000
42951/16
18/07/2016
Lajos Magyar
02/02/1937
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings -
19/11/2018
25/10/2018
8,000
60979/16
13/10/2016
Zsuzsanna Kováts
16/03/1973
Szegedi Zsolt
Nyíregyháza
14/11/2018
06/08/2018
3,500
33992/17
02/05/2017
Zsolt Jakab
12/05/1979
20/11/2018
29/06/2018
3,300
51544/17
14/07/2017
(7 applicants)
Pál Ferenc Kiss
28/03/1957
Ottó SZÍJÁRTÓ
20/01/1958
György KULI
03/01/1964
István ALEXAI
26/07/1952
Antal PETŐ
16/04/1967
Csaba Ferenc VELKEI
15/10/1976
László SZABÓ
03/10/1970
Kármán Judit
Jászberény
19/11/2018
17/10/2018
3,000
52643/17
17/07/2017
Komszám Komplex Kft.
20/07/2011
Müller Tibor
Budajenő
13/11/2018
18/07/2018
3,200
55812/17
28/07/2017
Júlia Katalin Kolek
17/04/1958
Payrich András
Budapest
19/11/2018
02/10/2018
6,000
26750/18
30/05/2018
Enikő Klement
12/04/1998
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings -
09/11/2018
02/10/2018
10,000
[1]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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