KOVÁCS AND OTHERS v. HUNGARY
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Document date: December 13, 2018
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FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 68124/16 Lajos KOVÁCS against Hungary and 4 other applications (see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 13 December 2013 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 application s lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,
Having regard to the formal declaration s accepting a friendly settlement of the cases,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of applicant s 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 criminal proceedings were communicated to the Hungarian Government (“the Government”) .
The Court received friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicant s 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 case s 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 17 January 2019 .
Liv Tigerstedt Georges Ravarani Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of criminal proceedings)
No.
Application no. Date of introduction
Applicant ’ s name
Date of birth
Representative ’ s name and location
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
(in euros) [1]
68124/16
17/11/2016
Lajos Kovács
24/10/1968
Koós László Zoltán
Debrecen
12/06/2018
20/06/2018
3,500
35932/17
11/05/2017
László Tiborné Fülöp
01/08/1951
Horváth-Zelenyánszky Péter
Budapest
13/11/2018
24/04/2018
13,000
70868/17
07/09/2017
Zsolt Béla Császy
23/02/1965
Cech András
Budapest
09/11/2018
03/05/2018
2,500
71376/17
17/09/2017
Rozália Radics
09/11/1973
Hatlaczki Gyula
Nagykáta
26/10/2018
28/04/2018
11,000
76244/17
28/01/2016
Renátó Barile
02/11/1968
Imre MÁRKI
24/10/1968
Szegedi Zsolt
Nyíregyháza
22/11/2018
26/04/2018
7,000
[1] . Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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