Kárteszi and Others v. Hungary

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 42911/23 Márta KÁRTESZI and Others against Hungary

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 13 June 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 application lodged on 27 November 2023,

Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the case,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The list of applicants is set out in the appended table.

The applicants were represented by Mr I. Barbalics, a lawyer practising in Budapest.

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”).

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 this application, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amount detailed in the appended table. This amount 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 this amount within the above ‑ mentioned three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on it, 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 case.

THE LAW

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 application.

In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.

Done in English and notified in writing on 4 July 2024.

Attila Teplán Gilberto Felici Acting Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

Application raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention

(excessive length of civil proceedings)

Application no. Date of introduction

Applicant’s name

Year 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]

42911/23

27/11/2023

(57 applicants)

Márta KÁRTESZI

1948

Sándorné BAUMANN

1954

Zoltán Gáborné BÍRÓ

1954

Jánosné BOKOR

1932

Ferencné BÜKI

1948

Zoltán Lajos CSOBAI

1970

Lászlóné CZAKÓ

1946

Éva DARÓK

1968

Mihály Zoltán DUDÁS

1966

István ELLMANN

1945

Pongrác ERDŐSI

1943

István FORRAI

1967

Jánosné GAZGYIK

1951

Miklós HAJDU

1948

Ödönné HALÁSZ

1938

László IMRE

1964

Mária ISTVÁNFFY

1958

József Sándor JOÓ

1956

Irén JUHÁSZNÉ PRÓKAJ

1964

Ferenc KÁTAI

1964

Gabriella KENDERESI

1963

Péter Endre KENYERES

1951

Zoltán Józsefné KENYERES

1947

Gábor KISS

1969

János KISS

1939

Mariann KOCSIS-TÓTH

1956

László Jenő KORONTHÁLY

1945

Ágnes KOVÁCS

1969

Ferencné KŐVÁRI

1950

Éva KRIZSANYIKNÉ BARNA

1957

István MARSCHEK

1957

Gábor Ferencné MISKÓ

1950

Győzőné MOLNÁR

1954

Jánosné NAGY

1938

József NAGY

1965

Zoltánné NAGY

1972

Zoltán Zsolt NÉMETH

1974

Tamás NYÉKI

1979

István Pál ORLIK

1950

Imre PALKÓ

1950

Zsuzsa PATONÁNÉ FARAGÓ

1946

József RÁBA

1953

Lászlóné SÁGI

1932

Erika SOLYMOSNÉ TURNER

1963

Gábor STEINBEISZER

1981

János STEINBEISZER

1983

Aladárné SÜLI

1946

Zoltán SZEMENKÁR

1941

Józsefné SZILÁGYI

1945

Judit SZŐLŐS-GECSE

1975

Béla TOPLAK

1962

Katalin TÓTHNÉ MOLNÁR

1976

István VASINKA

1955

József Ernő VINCZE

1955

Józsefné VÍZKELETI

1925

László VÖRÖS

1966

Mónika Andrea WOHNER

1969

Barbalics István

Budapest

15/05/2024

28/02/2024

2,000

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