MILEVSKA AND OTHERS v. NORTH MACEDONIA and 7 other applications
Doc ref: 37805/19;7537/20;7846/20;9162/20;12110/20;13335/20;14511/20;15660/20 • ECHR ID: 001-214944
Document date: December 14, 2021
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Published on 10 January 2022
FIFTH SECTION
Application no. 37805/19 Stojanka MILEVSKA and Others against North Macedonia and 7 other applications (see list appended) communicated on 14 December 2021
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The applications concern the length of bankruptcy proceedings, which the Supreme Court found to have violated the reasonable-time requirement under Article 6 of the Convention and awarded the applicants monetary redress. The applicants complain that the amount of compensation awarded to them was low and that the Supreme Court did not issue an acceleration order requesting the lower courts to decide the case expeditiously.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
1. Was the length of the bankruptcy proceedings in the present case in breach of the “reasonable time” requirement as guaranteed by Article 6 § 1 of the Convention (see, for example, Frydlender v. France [GC], no. 30979/96, § 43, 27 June 2000, Mitkova v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia , no. 48386/09, § 50, 15 October 2015 and Eftimov v. the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, no. 59974/08, § 30, 2 July 2015)?
2. In view of the amount of compensation awarded by the Supreme Court, did the applicants have at their disposal an effective domestic remedy for their complaint under Article 6 § 1, as required by Article 13 of the Convention (see, for example, Marshall and Others v. Malta , no. 79177/16, § 82, 11 February 2020) ?
APPENDIX
List of applications
No.
Application no.
Lodged on
Applicant Year of Birth Place of Residence
Represented by
No. of instances
Length
Outcome of the domestic length remedy before the Supreme Court
1.
37805/19
10/07/2019
Stojanka MILEVSKA 1951 Skopje Vladanka ANGELOVSKA 1955 Skopje Marika PEJOSKA 1949 Skopje Mare MIRCHESKA 1959 Skopje Kiro MIRCHESKI 1958 Skopje
Ljubica STEFANOVSKA 1963 Skopje Dobrinka BLAZHEVSKA 1958 Skopje Verica GEROVSKA 1961 Skopje Persa PANEVSKA 1954 Skopje Dafa KOSTOVA 1957 Skopje Liljana RISTOVSKA 1961 Skopje Todorche TODEVSKI 1968 Skopje
Danche CHAKAROVSKA-GROZDANOVSKA
Two
11 years 9 months and 24 days
Awarded MKD 10,000 (EUR 163) each. No acceleration of the proceedings.
2.
7537/20
27/01/2020
Trajanka STOJANOVSKA 1949 Skopje Dragica PAVLOVSKA 1949 Skopje Ljubica ANTONOVA 1956 Skopje Dimitrija MARINCHEVSKI 1948 Skopje Sasho TRAJANOVSKI 1966 Skope Zora DIMOVSKA 1949 Skopje Gjorgji SHTERJOV 1956 Skopje Grana PANCHEVSKA 1960 Skopje Lozanka MARKOVIKJ 1951 Skopje Ubavka GJIREVSKA 1962 Skopje
Two
12 years and 9 days
3.
7846/20
31/01/2020
Zoran ANASTASOV 1962 Skopje Menka ILIOSKA 1954 Skopje Risto PETKOVSKI 1942 Skopje Mile ALEKSOVSKI 1955 Dono Lisiche Zorica ALEKSOVSKA 1960 Skopje Borche VANESKI 1960 Skopje Donka IVANOVA 1949 Skopje
Two
12 years and 9 days
4.
9162/20
10/02/2020
Zhivka TANEVSKA 1952 Skopje Blage STOJANOVSKI 1949 Skopje Blagica CHAVKOSKA 1949 Krivogashtani Anka SAVESKA 1946 Skopje Zoran KRSTEVSKI 1956 Skopje Bona JOVANOVSKA 1959 Skopje Jagoda MIHAJLOSKA 1958 Skopje Lidija GROZDANOVSKA 1960 Skopje
Two
12 years and 2 days
5.
12110/20
25/02/2020
Zara BOZHINOVSKA 1946 Creshevo Stojanka SMILESKA 1950 Skopje Gordana PETKOVSKA 1964 Skopje
Two
12 years and 9 days
6.
13335/20
03/03/2020
Pavlina RISTESKA 1963 Skopje Dafinka MITROVSKA 1946 Skopje Igor MALCEV 1969 Skopje Kjamil JAKUPI 1947 Skopje
Kosara NIKOLOVSKA
Born: 1948
Deceased: 2021
Skopje Succeeded by her son
Martin NIKOLOVSKI
1984Skopje Petar PREMCHESKI 1942 Skopje
Cvetanka DUMALOSKA 1954 Skopje Dimitar CVETANOSKI 1941 Skopje Vesna NIKOLOVA 1956 Skopje
Two
11 years 9 months and 24 days
7.
14511/20
13/03/2020
Violeta VELICHKOVSKA 1963 Stajkovci Rosana KRSTEVSKA 1957 Stajkovci Cveta BOZHINOVSKA 1955 Stajkovci Zhaklina DONEVSKA 1965 Skopje Lepa BOGEVSKA 1966 Skopje Violeta NESHIKJ 1964 Chucher Bisera GJORGJEVIKJ 1967 Skopje Branko PETROVSKI 1966 Skopje Spase FILIPOVSKI 1950 Skopje
Ilija STOJANOVSKI 1951 Skopje
Two
11 years 9 months and 24 days
8.
15660/20
23/03/2020
Olga PITROPOVSKA 1951 Skopje Zhivka UGROVA 1951 Skopje Olgica KOCEVSKA 1955 Skopje Snezhanka GUDUMANOVSKA 1954 Skopje Tomislav MILEVSKI 1966 Gradovci
Two
12 years 5 months and 3 days
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