Oláh and Others v. Hungary

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 11230/23 Anikó OLÁH against Hungary and 4 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 7 March 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 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 civil proceedings were communicated to the Hungarian Government (“the Government”). 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 28 March 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]

11230/23

28/02/2023

Anikó OLÁH

1979

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings

17/01/2024

17/10/2023

10,400

15712/23

27/03/2023

(11 applicants)

Istvánné BÁNÁTI

1946

Frigyesné HAKSZER

1943

Alfrédné HARSÁNYI

1935

Gyuláné MÉSZÁROS

1943

Károlyné OROSZI

1945

Jánosné PALKOVICS

1938

Pál János PÁPAI

1949

Antal SIMON

1942

Béláné SZABÓ

1945

Mária SZOMBATHELYI

1941

Jenő WISZT

1967

Barbalics István

Budapest

31/01/2024

30/11/2023

2,000

20675/23

28/04/2023

(25 applicants)

Adrianne Anna BARNÁNÉ HERVERT

1964

Judit BERKES

1955

Noémi BODORNÉ CSÁNYI

1970

István BOKROS

1955

Antalné BONAFERT

1942

Lászlóné CSÁNYI

1946

János CSONKA

1955

Edit Zsuzsanna FLUGER

1953

József HLINKA

1954

Róbert Alajos HUNKA

1942

Zsuzsanna Mária KARDOSNÉ PAVLICSEK

1958

Éva KÉKESI

1952

Mónika KÉSMÁRKI

1969

Géza KOVÁCS

1954

Judit MOLNÁRNÉ BOHUS-KRAJÓ

1941

Józsefné NERPEL

1963

Miklósné NYIRI

1952

Gábor ROTTENBACHER

1964

András SCHLENK

1956

Norbert SCHLENK

1979

László SZABÓ

1952

László SZEKERES

1955

Gyula VASS

1948

Ildikó ZELENKA

1957

László ZELENKA

1960

Kodela Viktor

Budapest

31/01/2024

22/11/2023

2,000

27517/23

28/06/2023

Csaba MATOLCSI

1955

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings

17/01/2024

22/01/2024

9,100

30619/23

20/07/2023

(35 applicants)

Krisztina CSÓTI

1973

Ottilia Margit BURGHARDT

1948

Miklósné CSERNA

1937

Lajos CSÓTI

1978

János DARIDA

1940

Mária DEÁK

1940

György DEBRECENI

1932

Csabáné ELEK

1978

Józsefné ELEKES

1940

Ferenc FARKAS

1952

János FENYVESI

1977

Gábor FIEDLER

1954

Lászlóné GÁL

1943

Istvánné GELLAI

1937

Attila GULCSIK

1972

Józsefné GULCSIK

1945

Árpád Gáborné HEGEDÜS

1948

Rita Veronika HORVÁTH

1964

Péter Gusztáv ISTENES

1941

Kálmánné JUHÁSZ

1946

Tiborné KORNÉL

1938

Marcell MEZEY

1966

Éva Marianna NAGY-CSERNA

1961

Jánosné NÉMETH

1950

Attila PAHOR

1967

Andrea Piroska PANTÓCSIKNÉ PÁSZTOR

1966

Józsefné RÉDEI

1941

Zoltánné SCHAHAY

1950

Orsolya Éva SCHLENK

1990

Zoltán Attila SCHLENK

1994

Andrea Klára SOLTÉSZ

1957

Sándorné SZÁSZ

1949

Annamária SZPORNI

1956

István UNGURIÁN

1956

Iván VALOVICS

1966

Kodela Viktor

Budapest

06/02/2024

12/01/2024

2,000

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