Senkó and Others v. Hungary

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 36016/23 László SENKÓ and Others against Hungary

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 13 June 2024 as a Committee composed of:

Gilberto Felici , President , Péter Paczolay, Raffaele Sabato , judges ,

and Attila Teplán, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 20 September 2023,

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 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 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 4 July 2024.

Attila Teplán Gilberto Felici 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]

36016/23

20/09/2023

(93 applicants)

László SENKÓ

1947

Ferenc AMBRUS

1956

Attila György BAKÓ

1972

Mária BARKÓNÉ NAGY

1955

Sándor BAUMANN

1943

Sándor BEDŐ

1951

Antal BELICZA

1950

Erzsébet BENE

1952

László BERECZKI

1938

Ilona BÍRÓ

1954

Zoltánné BÍRÓ

1952

Lászlóné BORBÉLY

1934

László Mihály BUCHLEITNER

1955

László Lajos BUJTÁS

1960

Andrásné CSANAKI

1938

István Béláné CSEKŐ

1947

Ferencné DÁVID

1947

Gyuláné DEÁK

1932

László DÉRI

1960

Rita DÉRINÉ VARGA

1967

Ágoston Lajosné DOSEK

1956

Antalné EISZRICH

1954

András FARKAS

1939

Zoltán FARKAS

1944

Árpádné FILIPÁNIS

1959

Józsefné FÜREDI

1942

Ödönné GAÁL

1940

István GILLICH

1937

Sándorné GUTAI

1948

Sándorné GYURICZA

1941

Gábor HALÁSZ

1968

Andrea HEFFLERNÉ PAPP

1973

Imre HEGEDŰS

1945

Zsolt HEGEDŰS

1972

Csaba István HERKE

1946

Judit HÓDINÉ KARDOS

1960

István HOLLÓS

1957

László HORVÁTH

1965

József Pál HUCSKÓ

1937

Lászlóné JÁRFÁS

1935

Árpád KÁLMÁN

1953

Istvánné KEGLOVICS

1952

Györgyi KISS

1969

Lajosné KNÖPFL

1944

Tünde KORONA

1967

Ferencné KOVÁCS

1945

György Miklós KOVÁCS

1966

Julianna KOVÁCS

1948

Péterné KOVÁCS

1957

Emil József KOZSÁR

1954

Mihályné KRASZNAI

1944

Tivadar Józsefné LÁNG

1941

Károly LASKAWI

1947

Antalné LUKÁCS

1937

Sándor MÁRTON

1926

Tibor Károly MELIKANT

1947

Dániel MÉSZÁROS

1939

Gábor MIKLÓS

1976

Rita MÓRÉNÉ RÁCZ

1967

Barnabásné NAGY

1929

Jenőné NAGY

1938

Tibor NAGY

1951

Ferencné NÁNAI

1952

István Lajosné NÉMETH

1960

Istvánné NÉMETH

1939

László OCELLA

1957

Géza Endre OSSKÓ

1943

Mihály Jánosné PAP

1960

László Mihály PÁPAI

1945

Béla PASZMÁR

1964

Pál PERJÉS

1932

Ferencné POLGÁR

1942

János POTÁRI

1953

Rolland RÁCZ

1969

László SEPRENYI

1937

Sándor SEPRENYI

1962

Gyula SIKOS

1956

Károlyné SIMON

1942

Károlyné SIMON

1956

János STRAUSZ

1936

Zolánné SZABÓ

1942

Olga SZABÓNÉ KOVÁCS

1953

Gyula SZALAY

1982

Imréné SZANDTHEIMER

1937

Tímea Linda SZÉKELYI

1983

Tamás János SZLOVÁK

1959

Ida SZŐKE

1941

Ibolya TASNÁDINÉ TRIBIK

1955

Zsolt TÁSZLER

1956

Istvánné TÓTH

1941

Lászlóné VÁCZI

1943

László ZSIRAI

1937

Márton ZSOLDOS

1938

Barbalics István

Budapest

15/05/2024

03/05/2024

2,000

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