Németh v. Hungary

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 6300/19 Sándor NÉMETH against Hungary

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 26 September 2019 as a Committee composed of:

Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, President, Georges Ravarani, Jolien Schukking, judges,

and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 18 January 2019,

Having regard to the observations submitted by the respondent Government and the observations in reply submitted by the applicant,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant’s details are set out in the appended table.

The applicant’s complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings were communicated to the Hungarian Government (“the Government”).

THE LAW

Complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention (excessive length of civil proceedings)

In the present application, having examined all the material before it, the Court considers that for the reasons stated below, these complaints are inadmissible.

In particular, the Court notes that in application no. 25411/10, also submitted by the present applicant, a judgment was adopted on 17 February 2015 finding a violation of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention on account of the protraction of litigation that related to the same subject matter as the present case; and the applicant was awarded just satisfaction. The ensuing length of the dispute, at issue in the present application, is three years and five months for two levels of jurisdiction – which cannot be considered excessive.

In view of the above, the Court finds that these complaints are manifestly ill-founded and must be rejected in accordance with Article 35 §§ 3 and 4 of the Convention.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Declares the application inadmissible.

Done in English and notified in writing on 17 October 2019.

Liv Tigerstedt Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström 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

Date of birth

Start of proceedings

End of proceedings

Total length

Levels of jurisdiction

6300/19

18/01/2019

Sándor Németh

24/07/1966

17/02/2015

17/07/2018

3 year(s) and 5 month(s) and 21 day(s) 2 level(s) of jurisdiction