SECOND SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 17335/24
Gábor ÁDÁM against Hungary
and 9 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 22 May 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 12 June 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.    

17335/24

24/05/2024

Gábor ÁDÁM

1975

 

Morvai Attila

Budapest

 

16/01/2025

04/04/2025

8,200

  1.    

30861/24

17/10/2024

Noémi TÓTH

1974

 

Kolozsiné Papp Kitti

Budapest

 

03/04/2025

06/03/2025

3,600

  1.    

31213/24

15/10/2024

Krisztina KABAI

1985

 

Szabó Gábor

Göd

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

04/04/2025

02/01/2025

6,500

  1.    

31336/24

08/10/2024

János GUPCSÓ

1990

 

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

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

03/04/2025

19/03/2025

2,600

  1.    

32927/24

28/10/2024

Zsigmond SERBÁN

1966

 

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

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

03/04/2025

21/02/2025

3,300

  1.    

35517/24

13/11/2024

Gábor KALÁN

1977

 

Paulusz Bogáta

Budapest

 

10/04/2025

14/02/2025

3,300

  1.    

36183/24

25/11/2024

Benjámin LAKATOS

1995

 

Szabó Gábor

Göd

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

10/04/2025

14/02/2025

3,300

  1.    

36184/24

25/11/2024

Péter Károly TÓTH

1996

 

Szabó Gábor

Göd

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

10/04/2025

14/02/2025

3,300

  1.    

36185/24

25/11/2024

Alexander RICHTER

1995

 

Szabó Gábor

Göd

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

10/04/2025

14/02/2025

3,300

  1.  

37506/24

04/12/2024

Zoltán HORVÁTH-PANKOVITS

1975

 

Szabó Gábor

Göd

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

31/03/2025

11/04/2025

2,900

 


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