UNIMARK KKT v. HUNGARY (European Court of Human Rights)

Last Updated on April 24, 2019 by LawEuro

FOURTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 1262/15
UNIMARK KKT
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,
Péter Paczolay, judges,

and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 18 December 2014,

Having regard to the observations submitted by the respondent Government,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

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

The applicant company was represented by Mr G. Szabolcs, a lawyer practising in Budapest.

Its 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 periods (see the 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.

Liv Tigerstedt                                                  Georges Ravarani
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 registration	Representative’s name and location	Start of proceedings	End of proceedings	Total length Levels of jurisdiction
1262/15 18/12/2014	Unimark Kkt	Gaal Szabolcs Budapest	08/03/2006     26/04/2012	23/03/2007     08/04/2014	1 year(s) and 16 day(s) 2 level(s) of jurisdiction     1 year(s) and 11 month(s) and 14 day(s) 2 level(s) of jurisdiction