BLASHCHUK A OSTATNÍ proti Ukrajině

FIFTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 81643/12
Arsentiy Andriyovych BLASHCHUK against Ukraine
and 3 other applications
(see list appended)

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 9 February 2017 as a Committee composed of:

Erik Møse, President,
Yonko Grozev,
Mārtiņš Mits, judges,

and Karen Reid, Section Registrar,

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

Having regard to the observations submitted by the respondent Government and the observations in reply submitted by some of the applicants,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The list of applicants and the relevant details of the applications are set out in the appended table.

The applicants’ complaints under Articles 6 § 1 and 13 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of criminal proceedings and the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law were communicated to the Ukrainian Government (“the Government”).

THE LAW

A. Joinder of the applications

Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.

B. Complaints under Articles 6 § 1 and 13 of the Convention

The Court, having examined all the materials submitted to it and having regard to its case-law on the subject (see, for example, Koval v. Ukraine (dec.), no. 65550/01, 30 March 2004), considers that the applicants’ complaints under this head are inadmissible since they were introduced out of time.

In view of the above, the Court finds that these complaints are manifestly ill-founded and must be rejected in accordance with Article 35 §§ 1 and 4 of the Convention.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to join the applications;

Declares the applications inadmissible.

Done in English and notified in writing on 2 March 2017.

Karen Reid Erik Møse
Registrar President

APPENDIX

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

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