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FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 29630/21
János SÁNDOR and Others against Hungary
and 9 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 22 September 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Krzysztof Wojtyczek, President,

Erik Wennerström,

Lorraine Schembri Orland, 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 13 October 2022.

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 wellestablished 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]

29630/21

29/04/2021

(3 applicants)

Household

János SÁNDOR

1970

Tamás SÁNDOR

1973

Jánosné SÁNDOR

1950

Pivarnyikné Juhász Emőke

Budapest

28/06/2022

12/10/2021

5,200

43376/21

23/08/2021

Dávid PUSOMA

1998

04/07/2022

04/03/2022

2,000

48218/21

20/09/2021

Anikó DÁVID

1974

Lakatos Viktor

Budapest

19/07/2022

13/06/2022

5,100

59310/21

18/11/2021

Imréné GEIGER

1936

Piroska HAJASNÉ SZABÓ

1949

Kovács Miklós Antalné

Veszprem

05/08/2022

20/07/2022

5,100

1189/22

21/12/2021

Sándor KECSKÉS

1940

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

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

28/06/2022

13/04/2022

3,600

5628/22

05/01/2022

József BELEZNAI

1978

04/07/2022

04/07/2022

2,000

5762/22

21/01/2022

Tamás RADU

1985

Visontai Csongor

Budapest

01/08/2022

02/06/2022

3,300

5764/22

22/01/2022

Milán LAKATOS

1992

Fahidi Gergely

Budapest

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

11/07/2022

25/05/2022

3,300

6891/22

28/01/2022

Géza OLÁH

1982

08/08/2022

12/07/2022

2,000

7280/22

08/01/2022

Attila HORVÁTH

1984

Szabó Gábor

Göd

01/08/2022

29/06/2022

2,000


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