Grób and Others v. Hungary

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 20005/22 Ottóné GRÓB and Others against Hungary

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 17 May 2023 as a Committee composed of:

Alena Poláčková , President , Gilberto Felici, Raffaele Sabato , judges ,

and Attila Teplán, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 12 April 2022,

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 I. Barbalics, 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 the friendly-settlement declaration, signed by the parties, under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Hungary in respect of the facts giving rise to this application, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amount detailed in the appended table. This amount 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 this amount within the above ‑ mentioned three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on it, 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 8 June 2023.

Attila Teplán Alena Poláčková 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

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]

20005/22

12/04/2022

(34 applicants)

Ottóné GRÓB

1943

Péter SMIDELIK

1970

Károly ROLLÉDER

1942

Sándor REICH

1937

Anett BICSKEY

1991

Sándor KÖRTVÉLY

1940

Ilona POKÓ

1951

József HORVÁTH

1950

Mária SZŰCS

1980

Lászlóné POZSGAI

1934

Lászlóné PALKOVICS

1941

Sándorné KOVÁCS

1934

Gábor BOGLÁRI

1957

Tiborné MÁTÉ

1947

Józsefné HORVÁTH

1951

Ilona SIMON

1946

Istvánné MENDLER

1955

Mihály OLÁH

1951

István KISS

1930

Júlia MERÉNYI

1988

Marianna MACSUGÁNÉ HEGEDŰS

1955

László KŐSZEGI

1928

Annamária Katalin SZÉLIG

1951

Frigyes BECZŐK

1975

István Ferencné KOSZPEK

1933

Ferencné VÁRKONYI

1944

János Tiborné TÓTH

1965

Mária CZÉKMAN

1953

Károly KOPÁCS

1966

Katalin HORVÁTHNÉ BÍRÓ

1980

Ernőné BÍRÓ

1955

Imre MÁTÉ

1941

Ferenc MEGYES

1947

György Ferenc HORVÁTH

1930

Barbalics István

Budapest

11/04/2023

31/01/2023

9,100

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