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FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 20974/18
Waldemar BARAN-BARANOWSKI against Poland
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 4 February 2021 as a Committee composed of:

Alena Poláčková, President,
Péter Paczolay,
Gilberto Felici, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,

Having regard to the declarations submitted by the respondent Government requesting the Court to strike the applications out of the list of cases, and the applicants’ replies to these declarations,

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 about the excessive length of proceedings in their cases and under Article 13 of the Convention about the lack of, or insufficient, redress for the excessive length of proceedings granted to them by the national court were communicated to the Polish Government (“the Government”).

The Government submitted declarations with a view to resolving the issues raised by these complaints. They further requested the Court to strike out the applications.

The Government acknowledged a violation of Article 6 § 1 on account of the excessive length of proceedings and a violation of Article 13 on account of the lack of an effective remedy. They offered to pay the applicants the amounts detailed in the appended table and invited the Court to strike the applications out of the list of cases in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (c) of the Convention. The amounts would 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 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 cases.

The applicants informed the Court that they agreed to the terms of the declarations.

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 finds that, following the applicants’ express agreement to the terms of the declaration made by the Government, the cases should be treated as a friendly settlement between the parties.

It therefore 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 the 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 25 February 2021.

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Viktoriya Maradudina Alena Poláčková
Acting Deputy Registrar President


APPENDIX

List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 and Article 13 of the Convention

(excessive length of criminal proceedings and the lack of an effective remedy in domestic law)

No.

Application no.
Date of introduction

Applicant’s name

Year of birth

Representative’s name and location

Date of receipt of Government’s declaration

Date of receipt of applicant’s acceptance

Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses

per applicant

(in Polish Zloty [PLN])[1]

20974/18

26/06/2018

Waldemar BARAN-BARANOWSKI

1944

25/06/2020

23/09/2020

12,480

24076/18

15/05/2018

Robert TABAKA

1983

25/06/2020

24/09/2020

6,050

30042/18

11/06/2018

Antoni Piotr BARCZYK

1951

25/06/2020

08/10/2020

32,320

9891/19

07/02/2019

Andrzej Marian SAWA

1965

17/06/2020

06/08/2020

19,360

11587/19

22/02/2019

Przemysław MŁYNARCZYK

1966

17/06/2020

20/07/2020

25,300

11795/19

22/02/2019

Hubert ANDRZEJEWSKI

1994

Andrzejewska Sandra

Warszawa

17/06/2020

23/07/2020

15,600

13850/19

06/03/2019

Stefan GÓRECKI

1955

17/06/2020

24/07/2020

32,710

21342/19

09/04/2019

Jarosław GRZESIUK

1992

Cupiał Dawid

Warsaw

17/06/2020

29/07/2020

12,100

24160/19

24/04/2019

Zbigniew KOWALKE

1961

17/06/2020

21/07/2020

28,080

24305/19

16/04/2019

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

1964

25/06/2020

07/10/2020

29,980


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