CEDH · CASELAW;DECISIONS;ADMISSIBILITYCOM;ENG — 13 septembre 2018

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THE LAW A.     Joinder of the applications 3.     Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision. B.     Complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention 4.     The Government pleaded non-exhaustion of domestic remedies under Article 35 § 1 of the Convention since the applicants had not pursued an action for tortious liability. 5.     Those applicants who replied to the Government’s observations disagreed with the preliminary objection of non-exhaustion of domestic remedies. 6.     In the case of Brudan v. Romania (no. 75717/14, § 68, 10 April 2018), the Court held that following its judgment in the case of Vlad and Others v. Romania (nos. 40756/06 and 2 others, 26 November 2013), the action for tortious liability had been included by the domestic courts as an effective remedy to complain about the excessive length of proceedings, before both criminal and civil courts in Romania. In Brudan (cited above), the Court also found that the High Court for Cassation and Justice’s judgment of 30 January 2014, which consolidated the domestic case-law on actions for tortious liability, had acquired a sufficient level of certainty on 22 March 2015. It therefore concluded that this remedy must be exhausted, as of that date, for the purposes of Article 35 § 1 of the Convention (see Brudan , cited above, § 88). 7.     The present applications were all lodged with the Court after 22   March 2015 (see the appended table) and the applicants were therefore required by Article 35 § 1 of the Convention to avail themselves of this domestic remedy (see Brudan , cited above, § 89). It appears from the case files that the applicants have not lodged actions for tortious liability before the domestic courts, or have failed to provide the Court with a final decision rendered by the competent court in such proceedings. 8.     Accordingly, the Government’s objection of failure to exhaust domestic remedies must be upheld. It follows that these complaints must be rejected as inadmissible, pursuant to Article 35 §§ 1 and 4 of the Convention. For these reasons, the Court, unanimously, Decides to join the applications; Declares the applications inadmissible. Done in English and notified in writing on 4 October 2018.   Liv Tigerstedt   Georges Ravarani   Acting Deputy Registrar   President   APPENDIX List of applications 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   Representative’s name and location Start of proceedings End of proceedings Total length Levels of jurisdiction Domestic court file number     12005/15 01/04/2015 Gheorghe Iftinchi 22/05/1951   Ana Iftinchi 09/02/1955     10/10/2003   01/10/2014   11 year(s) 3 level(s) of jurisdiction   1265.2/32/2006*     15458/15 23/03/2015 Ion Stănescu 13/10/1937   Elena Stănescu 29/09/1933     17/11/2009   02/10/2014   4 year(s) and 11 month(s) 2 level(s) of jurisdiction   18107/280/2009     16708/15 02/04/2015 Ruxandra-Mihaela Datcu 02/01/1962   Silviu-Adrian Aștefanei 25/08/1956     21/07/2006   15/09/2014   8 year(s) and 2 month(s) 3 level(s) of jurisdiction   13721/301/2006     57687/15 12/11/2015 Lidia Murășan 08/02/1937     12/11/2003   04/12/2014   11 year(s) and 23 day(s) 2 level(s) of jurisdiction 577/118/2013       24484/16 23/04/2016 (20 applicants) Cristina Herskovits 02/07/1968 Amelia Boată 19/10/1943 Floarea Boboc 28/09/1949 Marcela Bornaz 17/08/1938 Lucian Buliga 29/11/1952 Constantin Buţu 21/05/1944 Aurel Buzatu 01/05/1957 Olga Cazan 04/04/1970 Aurelian-Doru Guţă 30/07/1970 Elena Iova 24/06/1957 Gheorghe-Dănuţ Pîrvu 22/06/1967 Floarea Pîrvu 03/09/1942 Ion Răduţ 24/04/1946 Victoria Răduţ 30/03/1951 Iordache Tuţă 07/01/1936 Oprea-Constantin Tuţă 15/01/1952       Household Ion Ionică 18/09/1947 Marcela Ionică 06/09/1948     Household Cristinel Iovan 02/11/1966 Elisabeta Iovan 20/02/1944   Simona Leoveanu, Craiova 30/08/2006   29/10/2015   9 year(s) and 2 month(s) 3 level(s) of jurisdiction   2683/90/2011*     45792/16 28/07/2016 Rodica Anastasescu 23/03/1952     08/10/2010   14/01/2016   5 year(s) and 3 month(s) and 7 day(s) 2 level(s) of jurisdiction   13238/306/2010**     46017/16 02/08/2016 Ancuța-Cristina Șerban 27/01/1969 Dragoş Ciupercescu, Bucharest 14/11/2011   27/01/2017   5 year(s) and 2 month(s) and 14 day(s) 1 level(s) of jurisdiction   705/II-2/2015     47061/16 01/08/2016 Maria-Rodica Crainic 03/05/1958 Nicolae Dăgău, Oradea 19/02/2004   20/04/2016   12 year(s) and 2 month(s) and 2 day(s) 3 level(s) of jurisdiction   1643/271/2006*     47695/16 05/08/2016 Alexandru-Marius Richtberg 26/04/1977     05/04/2005   22/01/2016   10 year(s) and 9 month(s) and 18 day(s) 3 level(s) of jurisdiction   3165/299/2007*