FIRST SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 29623/14
Florbela Maria QUEIJINHO RATO LEÃO and others
against Portugal
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 2 June 2015 as a Committee composed of:
Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, President,
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque,
Ksenija Turković, judges,
and André Wampach, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 4 April 2014,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the case,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix. They were represented before the Court by Mr J. Martins Lourenço, a lawyer practising in Lisbon.
The Portuguese Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mrs M. F. da Graça Carvalho, Deputy Attorney-General.
The applicants complained under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention about the length of civil proceedings to which they were a party.
On 19 January and 31 March 2015 the Court received friendly settlement declarations signed by the parties under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Portugal in respect of the facts giving rise to this application against an undertaking by the Government to pay each applicant EUR 3,900 (three thousand nine hundred euros) to cover any non-pecuniary damage and to jointly pay them EUR 1,000 (one thousand euros) to cover costs and expenses, which will be free of any taxes that may be applicable. These sums will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court. In the event of failure to pay these sums within the said three-month period, the Government undertook 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 case.
THE LAW
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 its Protocols and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the application. In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 25 June 2015.
André WampachMirjana Lazarova Trajkovska
Deputy RegistrarPresident
Appendix
No.
Firstname LASTNAME
Birth date
Nationality
Place of residence
Florbela Maria QUEIJINHO RATO LEÃO
16/02/1965
Portuguese
Mem Martins
Florinda Maria CONCEIÇÃO SILVA MARTINS
18/06/1965
Portuguese
Montijo
Susana LEITÃO LOURO ABRANTES
20/06/1944
Portuguese
Lisbon
Aline Fátima RODRIGUES ALVES DA SILVA MARTINS
13/05/1954
Portuguese
Almada
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