Alić and Others v. Montenegro

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 38274/23 Alim ALIĆ and Others against Montenegro

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 19 September 2024 as a Committee composed of:

Krzysztof Wojtyczek , President , Lətif Hüseynov, Erik Wennerström , judges ,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 14 October 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 M. Bulatović, a lawyer practising in Bar.

The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of constitutional proceedings were communicated to the Montenegrin Government (“the Government”).

The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Montenegro in respect of the facts giving rise to this application, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amounts detailed in the appended table. These amounts 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 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 10 October 2024.

Viktoriya Maradudina Krzysztof Wojtyczek 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

Date of receipt of Government’s declaration

Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration

Amount awarded for non-pecuniary damage

per applicant

(in euros) [1]

Amount awarded for costs and expenses per application

(in euros) [2]

38274/23

14/10/2023

(48 applicants)

Alim ALIĆ

1977

Alija BEHAROVIĆ

1972

Aleksandar BRAJOVIĆ

1973

Željko BRNJADA

1961

Miodrag BUJIĆ

1967

Goran ČEJOVIĆ

1975

Mladen CVETIĆ

1975

Radomir DEVIĆ

1968

Suljo DIBRA

1975

Pavle ĐOKMARKOVIĆ

1986

Zoran ĐOROVIĆ

1964

Željko FEMIĆ

1973

Vladimir GRBOVIĆ

1968

Miloš GRUJIĆ

1964

Slavko GRUJIČIĆ

1969

Hasredin HOT

1976

Vojislav JOLIČIĆ

1981

Dušanka JOVANOVIĆ

1949

Vasko JOVETIĆ

1964

Milorad JOVIĆEVIĆ

1967

Milan KEKER

1962

Mirko KEZIĆ

1965

Luka KLISIĆ

1984

Saša KRGOVIĆ

1973

Lazar KUČ

1962

Vuko LAKETIĆ

1961

Radovan LALIĆ

1965

Zoran LEKOVIĆ

1955

Radmilo LUKETA

1958

Mirsad LUKIĆ

1977

Zoran MARTINOVIĆ

1964

Predrag MARVUČIĆ

1983

Slaven MATOVIĆ

1970

Rajko MITROVIĆ

1961

Veselin PANTOVIĆ

1964

Đoko PEJUŠKOVIĆ

1961

Miloš PETRANOVIĆ

1987

Dragan PURLIJA

1964

Miodrag RADONJIĆ

1963

Radojica SAMARDŽIĆ

1973

Nedžad ŠKRIJELJ

1977

Mihailo STOJANOVIĆ

1957

Zoran TAJIĆ

1958

Rajko USKOKOVIĆ

1960

Predrag VUKAZIĆ

1961

Panto VUKOVIĆ

1964

Sead VUKOVIĆ

1976

Branislav ŽIVANOVIĆ

1958

17/06/2024

01/04/2024

1,100

250

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

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