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FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 5529/22
Zsolt Sándor LOLÓ against Hungary
and 9 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 8 December 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Krzysztof Wojtyczek, President,
Ivana Jelić,
Erik Wennerström, judges,

and Attila Teplán, 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 the friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, 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 abovementioned 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 12 January 2023.

Attila Teplán Krzysztof Wojtyczek
Acting Deputy Registrar President



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

Year 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 nonpecuniary damage and costs and expenses

per applicant

(in euros)[1]

5529/22

20/01/2022

Zsolt Sándor LOLÓ

1972

19/10/2022

11/07/2022

2,000

11756/22

18/02/2022

Gábor ÉBERHARDT

1986

Fahidi Gergely

Budapest

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings

30/09/2022

06/09/2022

2,600

12759/22

23/02/2022

Péter BOKOR

1973

Kovács Arthur

Szeged

08/08/2022

11/10/2022

2,600

13161/22

22/02/2022

Zoltán HAPEK

1983

09/11/2022

04/10/2022

2,600

15053/22

02/03/2022

János KALAPOS

1956

Szabó Gábor

Göd

09/11/2022

16/09/2022

2,000

15056/22

02/03/2022

Gábor JUHÁSZ

1997

Szabó Gábor

Göd

26/10/2022

16/09/2022

2,000

15076/22

26/02/2022

Béla BARTUS

1967

Fahidi Gergely

Budapest

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings

14/11/2022

06/09/2022

2,600

20550/22

19/04/2022

Attila SZABÓ

1975

19/10/2022

13/09/2022

3,300

21629/22

21/04/2022

Imre KIRÁLY

1972

14/11/2022

28/10/2022

3,900

22381/22

29/04/2022

Gusztáv RAFFAEL

1986

Szabó Gábor

Göd

19/10/2022

06/09/2022

2,000


[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.