SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 9319/24
Frigyes Józsefné KERTI and Others against Hungary
and 2 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 21 November 2024 as a Committee composed of:
Davor Derenčinović, President,
Gediminas Sagatys,
Stéphane Pisani, 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 were represented by Mr V. Kodela, 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 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 12 December 2024.
Attila Teplán Davor Derenčinović
Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil proceedings)
Application no. | 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] | |
9319/24 18/03/2024 (59 applicants) | Frigyes Józsefné KERTI 1956 Lászlóné BALLAGÓ 1942 Nóra BERENDI 1952 Árpád BLUHON 1981 Krisztina BLUHON 1973 Klára BOCSÁK 1984 Gyula Lászlóné BODA 1946 Ildikó BODA 1967 Beatrix BOGNÁR 1964 Cornelia Elizabeth BRUNNER 1958 Ildikó CSONTOSNÉ POPOVICS 1967 Krisztina EKE-TÓTH 1983 Krisztina FODORNÉ MAGYAR 1975 Julianna FOGDNÉ GARAI 1957 Ágnes FRANK 1970 Katalin GÁHOR 1982 Ernő GOSCHLER 1952 Gergelyné HORVÁTH 1953 Istvánné HRUSTINSZKI 1948 Béláné HUSZTI 1966 Viktória KARDOS-BLUHON 1979 István Antalné KÉKI 1974 Csaba KERTI 1977 Brigitta KLEM 1979 Ferenc Antalné KLEM 1952 Károly Józsefné KOSZPER 1958 Ágnes Rozália KOVÁCSNÉ VÍG 1949 Györgyné KRIZSÁN 1943 József Gyuláné LÁDONYI 1959 Péter MAGYAR 1981 Attila MAKOVECZ 1965
Istvánné MAKOVECZ 1940 Teodóra MAKOVECZ 1968 János MALEK 1958 Zsuzsanna Mária METZGER-TOMEK 1954 Erika MOLNÁR 1960 Zoltán Béláné MUCSI 1950 Márta Ágnes MÜLLER 1964 Csaba István NAGY 1962 Ildikó NAGY 1964 Tiborné NAGY 1955 Zsófia NAGY 1990 Éva Borbála NEMES 1947 László NYERS 1954 Márk PELIKÁN 1981 Ibolya PELIKÁNNÉ LENGYEL 1956 Ildikó Judit PETŐNÉ KÉKESI 1962 Miklós SAMAI 1962
Gézáné SÁTOR 1951 Ilona Borbála SOÓS 1937 Éva Erzsébet SULLAY 1947 Gyuláné SULYOK 1944 Gabriella SZEMEREY 1960 Ferenc SZONDI 1948 Zoltán TAKÁCS 1956 Aranka VAJDÁNÉ CSORDÁS 1943 Erzsébet VÉSZICSNÉ JUHÁSZ 1952 Gyuláné VIZI 1967 Gáborné VLAJK 1960 | Kodela Viktor Budapest | 31/10/2024 | 04/07/2024 | 2,000 | |
18313/24 19/06/2024 (34 applicants) | Máté SCHOPPER 1985 Attila Sándor ASZTALOS 1940 Piroska BONCSÉR 1950 Andrea CSERINÉ BALOGH 1968 István CSORDÁS 1948 György Győzőné GAJDOS 1969
János HÉRINCS 1947 Károlyné HUBER 1944 Imre IVANOVICS 1954 Éva JANES 1959 Emília KINCSES 1947 Lajos KOVÁCS 1949 Mihály Árpád LELOVICS 1940 György János LITAUSZKI 1956 Judit LÓRÁNTFY 1968 Zoltán István MARÁCZI 1958 Lajosné MENTES 1931 István NAGY 1979 Józsefné NAGY 1942 János Sándorné NIKODÉM 1950 József Pálné PETRIK 1941 Béla István PILÁT 1952 László János ROZMÁN 1961
István SAMU 1946 Dániel SAS 1989 Máté SAS 1994 Tamás SAS 1964 Tamás SEIGERSCHMIDT 1992 Attila SILLE 1972 István SIMON 1936 Imréné SZABÓ 1942 Andrea SZORCSIKNÉ BORISZ 1976 Judit VARJASI 1968 László Józsefné WALCZ 1947 | Kodela Viktor Budapest | 24/10/2024 | 21/10/2024 | 2,000 | |
18755/24 21/06/2024 (45 applicants) | Zoltán MAGYAR 1951 Gábor Tamás ALSZÁSZY 1969 Erzsébet BALOGNÉ SZABÓ 1959 Terézia BÁRDOS 1943 Ilona BECSEI 1943 Anikó BÉRES 1974
Imre BROGYÁNYI 1969 Zsolt BROGYÁNYI 1971 Kálmán BUÚS 1981 Attila Dénes DEBRECZENI 1989 Kinga Katalin DEBRECZENI 1995 József DEMETER 1954 Istvánné DONOVITZ 1932 Béláné FARKAS 1939 Norbert FAZEKAS 1986 Gábor FEHÉR 1966 Gábor FIAS 1967 Tiborné GÁL 1948 Pálné GAZDIK 1937 Tibor GULÁCSI 1972 Viktória HARASZTINÉ GULÁCSI 1967 Miklósné HORVÁTH 1937 Gábor HRUSTINSZKI 1975
Jenőné HUSZKA 1935 Zsolt KAJTÁR 1967 Éva Henrietta KARÁDI 1951 Péter Tamás KENDERESY 1980 Péter KÉTHELYI 1953 Csilla KISS 1966 Gergely Ferenc KLEM 1982 Péter KOBZA 1979 Gyula KURUCZ 1963 Miklós LISSA 1963 Andrea MÉSZÁROS 1968 Klára MICHELLER 1951 Károlyné MOLNÁR 1939 Attiláné NÉMETH 1966 Józsefné PELLER 1950 László SEPRÜS 1943 Mihályné SZABÓ 1940
Sándorné SZABÓ 1962 Endre Sándorné SZILÁGYI 1937 András SZUNYOGH 1949 Rita TÓTHNÉ SANDI 1968 Károlyné VEHOCZKI 1952 | Kodela Viktor Budapest | 24/10/2024 | 21/10/2024 | 2,000 |
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.