FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 68402/13
Chen Shao QING and Others against Hungary
and 7 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 30 January 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 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 Article 13 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 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 20 February 2020.
Liv TigerstedtStéphanie Mourou-Vikström
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of criminal 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
(in euros)[i]
68402/13
24/10/2013
(5 applicants)
Chen Shao QING
30/12/1969
Fu Yan QIN
14/05/1979
Chen Ke ZHONG
26/09/1978
Yan Lan WEN
28/12/1978
Guo Xiang HUANG
15/11/1966
Sztrókay Eszter
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings
16/12/2019
05/12/2019
7,800
15379/19
12/03/2019
Erika TÓTH
06/11/1971
Szegedi Zsolt
Nyíregyháza
12/11/2019
27/11/2019
16,900
17180/19
06/03/2019
István BAKAI
07/11/1965
Kuchár Zoltán
Budapest
24/07/2019
27/11/2019
5,200
21116/19
08/04/2019
Csaba MATUSINKA
18/03/1985
Borsos Tamás
Budapest
30/10/2019
09/09/2019
3,900
22546/19
23/04/2019
Szabolcs PINTÉR
26/12/1977
03/10/2019
03/01/2020
3,900
34620/19
20/06/2019
Diána Márta HERING
16/08/1984
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings
10/12/2019
19/09/2019
2,300
48726/19
12/09/2019
Márta PALOTAI
29/10/1972
Török Ildikó
Hódmezővásárhely
10/12/2019
11/12/2019
16,900
53621/19
26/09/2019
János BUKNICZ
11/02/1954
Török Ildikó
Hódmezővásárhely
12/12/2019
11/12/2019
16,900
[i]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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