SZŰCS AND OTHERS v. HUNGARY
Doc ref: 8942/23;11326/23;15721/23;17206/23;19115/23;20897/23;22514/23;26221/23;33437/23 • ECHR ID: 001-231408
Document date: February 1, 2024
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FIRST SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 8942/23 Anna SZÅ°CS and Others against Hungary and 8 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 1 February 2024 as a Committee composed of:
Gilberto Felici , President , Péter Paczolay, Raffaele Sabato , 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 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 Governmentâ€). In some of the applications, complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under other provisions of the Convention.
The Court received 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 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 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 22 February 2024.
Attila Teplán Gilberto Felici 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 well-established 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
(in euros) [1]
8942/23
14/02/2023
(10 applicants)
Anna SZÅ°CS
1982
Tamás CSER
1990
Andrea HUPKÃNÉ KÓSIK
1971
Ferencné KISS
1943
Tamás Zoltán KÓSIK
1965
István NAGY
1956
Istvánné NAGY
1930
Piroska NÉMETHNÉ NEMES
1965
Erzsébet Ãgnes PÃLFINÉ FARAGÓ
1963
István SZARVAS
1944
Barbalics István
Budapest
29/11/2023
30/11/2023
9,100
11326/23
21/02/2023
Ferenc FAZEKAS
1941
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
09/01/2024
11/09/2023
1,700
15721/23
31/03/2023
Albin SÃœMEGI
1959
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
10/01/2024
17/10/2023
2,000
17206/23
18/04/2023
Endre SZUGYICZKI
1977
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
10/01/2024
08/12/2023
2,000
19115/23
28/04/2023
Zsolt SZABÓ
1952
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
10/01/2024
17/10/2023
2,000
20897/23
22/05/2023
(26 applicants)
Antal TÓTH
1936
László BÖRCSÖK
1946
Ferenc Tibor CSEKÅ
1961
Ãdám CSERNI
1942
Józsefné FEIL
1948
Zsuzsanna GALÃNTAINÉ NAGY
1963
Bertalan GAZDAG
1930
József KOLONICS
1945
József KORCSIK
1949
József KÓSA
1939
Gyula LÃSZLÓ
1952
István Gábor LÖVEY
1950
Katalin MAI
1974
László István MENYHEI
1937
Henrik Antalné MORVAY
1959
JenÅ‘ Ãrpád NÉMETH
1953
Lajosné NÉMETH
1953
Ottóné NÉMETH
1949
Ferenc PÓDER
1951
Mártonné PONGRÃCZ
1934
József PRIKKEL
1954
Rudolf PROKAJ
1961
Gyula RAJCSÃK
1946
Erika STIERNÉ FEIL
1977
Kornél István SZABÓ
1967
Zoltán Lajosné SZABÓ
1949
Bartos Ernő
Biatorbágy
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
29/11/2023
03/01/2024
9,100
22514/23
26/05/2023
József SZABÓ
1962
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
10/01/2024
17/10/2023
2,000
26221/23
20/06/2023
Ãkos NÉMETH
1970
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
10/01/2024
17/10/2023
2,000
33437/23
22/11/2022
(7 applicants)
Zsuzsanna CZAPNÉ KOLTAY
1958
László DOBRÃDI
1982
Edit Anna DURKÓ
1951
Katalin GEIDERNÉ KOLTAY
1975
István HÃRS
1953
Beatrix MÓDIS
1980
László ÓDOR
1972
Bartos Ernő
Biatorbágy
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
29/11/2023
03/01/2024
9,100
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.