GAÁL v. HUNGARY (European Court of Human Rights)

Last Updated on April 24, 2019 by LawEuro

FOURTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 78133/13
Katalin GAÁL
against Hungary
(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 17 January 2019 as a Committee composed of:

Georges Ravarani, President,
Marko Bošnjak,
PéterPaczolay, judges,

and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 6 December 2013,

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.

She was represented by Mr A. Litresits, a lawyer practising in Budapest.

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 underArticle 6 § 1 of the Convention

In the present application, having examined all the material before it, the Court considers that for the reasons stated below, the respondent Government cannot be held liable for the protraction of the case.

In particular, the Court notes that the overall length of the relevant period (see appended table) did not exceed a reasonable time within the meaning of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention.

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 7 February 2019.

LivTigerstedt                                                  Georges Ravarani
Acting Deputy Registrar                                                President

 

APPENDIX

Application raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention

(excessive length of civil proceedings)

No.	Application no. Date of introduction	Applicant’s name Date of birth/Date of registration	Representative’s name and location	Start of proceedings	End of proceedings	Total length Levels of jurisdiction
1.	78133/13 06/12/2013	KatalinGaál 23/01/1972	LitresitsAndrás Budapest	16/05/2012	20/06/2013	1 year(s) and 1 month(s) and 5 day(s) 2 level(s) of jurisdiction