SECOND SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 10896/24
Endre ILLÉS against Hungary
and 9 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 27 February 2025 as a Committee composed of:

 Gediminas Sagatys, President,
 Stéphane Pisani,
 Juha Lavapuro, 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 criminal 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 abovementioned 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 20 March 2025.

 

 Attila Teplán Gediminas Sagatys
 Acting Deputy Registrar President

 


APPENDIX

List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention

(excessive length of criminal 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]

  1.    

10896/24

21/03/2024

Endre ILLÉS

1982

 

Fahidi Gergely

Budapest

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

13/01/2025

12/11/2024

4,600

  1.    

15269/24

15/05/2024

József KOVÁCS

1975

 

Frank Evelyn

Budapest

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

18/11/2024

15/01/2025

1,800

  1.    

15693/24

10/05/2024

József HULLÁR

1978

 

Szabó Gábor

Göd

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

13/01/2025

26/10/2024

3,300

  1.    

15701/24

08/05/2024

Mihály Sándor FÖLDI

1964

 

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

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

13/01/2025

25/09/2024

3,300

  1.    

17648/24

06/06/2024

József István BENEDEK

1985

 

Szabó Gábor

Göd

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

27/11/2024

13/01/2025

2,300

  1.    

18424/24

24/06/2024

János Róbert BALOGH

1995

 

Szabó Gábor

Göd

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

13/01/2025

11/10/2024

2,600

  1.    

19528/24

03/07/2024

Beatrix PEHM

1993

 

N. Tóth Máté

Budapest

 

10/12/2024

28/01/2025

2,600

  1.    

19530/24

03/07/2024

Péter HORVÁTH

1979

 

N. Tóth Máté

Budapest

 

10/12/2024

28/01/2025

2,600

  1.    

23087/24

01/08/2024

Csaba TÓTH

1988

 

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

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

09/01/2025

29/01/2025

2,600

  1.  

26418/24

03/09/2024

Timea LAKATOS

1979

 

Szabó Gábor

Göd

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

13/01/2025

15/01/2025

4,100

 


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