FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 6244/15
Mária SZOMOLYA against Hungary
and 7 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 27 September 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 18 October 2018.
Liv TigerstedtGeorges Ravarani
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
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/household
(in euros)[1]
6244/15
11/02/2015
Mária Szomolya
29/12/1946
27/08/2018
14/03/2018
10,000
9935/15
11/02/2015
Zoltán Mészáros
06/09/1980
Sárdi Márton
Budapest
27/08/2018
26/03/2018
2,500
14150/15
16/03/2015
Miklós Ináncsy
28/04/1950
Grád András Gusztáv
Budapest
21/08/2018
11/05/2018
12,000
14155/15
16/03/2015
Gábor Vilmos Kováts
05/03/1948
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings -
04/09/2018
04/04/2018
5,000
14457/15
17/03/2015
Ildikó Balázs
15/08/1959
Tóth István
Budapest
23/08/2018
26/02/2018
7,000
20495/15
15/04/2015
István Várhegyi
15/04/1954
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings –
24/08/2018
12/06/2018
7,000
40722/15
10/08/2015
(4 applicants)
Household
János Bognár
19/07/1943
Krisztina Zsuzsanna Bognár
16/05/1983
Péter János Bognár
25/04/1981
Zsuzsanna Bognárné Kovács
25/03/1961
Kmetty Ildikó
Vác
22/08/2018
15/06/2018
12,000
14313/16
08/03/2016
Erzsébet Giricz
05/01/1953
Váczi Péter
Győr
31/08/2018
13/07/2018
5,000
[1]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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