MINDA AND BARBALICS v. HUNGARY

• Judgment Date: 21 January 2021
• ECLI: ECLI:CE:ECHR:2021:0121JUD000187220
• Respondent State: Hungria
• Date: 21 January 2021
• Application Number: 1872/20
• Court: First Section Committee (European Court of Human Rights)
• Counsel: BARBALICS I.
• Applied Rules: 6;6-1

FIRST SECTION

CASE OF MINDA AND BARBALICS v. HUNGARY

(Application no. 1872/20)

JUDGMENT

STRASBOURG

21 January 2020

This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision.

In the case of Minda and Barbalics v. Hungary,

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

Krzysztof Wojtyczek, President,
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos,
Erik Wennerström, judges,
and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having deliberated in private on 17 December 2020,

Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:

1. PROCEDURE

1. The case originated in an application against Hungary lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on 20 December 2019.

2. The applicants were represented by Mr I. Barbalics, a lawyer practising in Budapest.

3. The Hungarian Government (“the Government”) were given notice of the application.

2. THE FACTS

4. The list of applicants and the relevant details of the application are set out in the appended table.

5. The applicants complained of the excessive length of civil proceedings.

3. THE LAW
   1. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 6 § 1 OF THE CONVENTION

6. The applicants complained that the length of the civil proceedings in their case had been incompatible with the “reasonable time” requirement. They relied on Article 6 § 1 of the Convention, which reads as follows:

Article 6 § 1

“In the determination of his civil rights and obligations ... everyone is entitled to a ... hearing within a reasonable time by [a] ... tribunal ...”

7. The Court reiterates that the reasonableness of the length of proceedings must be assessed in the light of the...