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 / Date of registration   Representative’s name and location Start of proceedings End of proceedings Total length Levels of jurisdiction Domestic court file number     46756/15 11/09/2015 Valentin-Gabi Lința 26/05/1960 Ana Daniela Iordan Timișoara 23/12/2008   11/03/2015   6 years and 2 months and 17 days 3 levels of jurisdiction 20335/325/2008     46829/15 18/09/2015 Gheorghe Gheorghiu 05/11/1953     10/04/2009   26/03/2015   5 years and 11 months and 17 days 2 levels of jurisdiction 1745/105/2009/a1.1     47103/15 14/09/2015 Sabina Sultana 24/08/1969     20/06/2006   16/03/2015   8 years and 8 months and 25 days 3 levels of jurisdiction 22483/3/2013     47154/15 15/09/2015 Cătălin Smeu-Mare 10/03/1982     23/05/2008   17/03/2015   6 years and 9 months and 23 days 3 levels of jurisdiction 13314/63/2010**         47328/15 21/09/2015 Doina Iliescu 04/06/1943     26/07/1999   24/04/2015   15 years and 8 months and 30 days 3 levels of jurisdiction 12932./299/2007*     51916/15 16/10/2015 S.C. Mihadi Divers Construct S.R.L. 22/11/2006 Mirel Răzvan Ioniță Pitești 26/06/2008   22/05/2015   6 years and 10 months and 27 days 1 level of jurisdiction 1002/280/2015     43/16 15/12/2015 Rodica-Ştefania Daia 18/06/1954     03/11/1999   16/06/2015   15 years and 7 months and 14 days 3 levels of jurisdiction 194/2/2015     5412/16 14/01/2016 Paul Potop 03/04/1960   Gheorghe Furtună 08/04/1971       30/09/2010   17/07/2015   4 years and 9 months and 18 days 1 levels of jurisdiction 1104/338/2015     12867/16 29/02/2016 Maria-Magdolna Lunka 07/09/1972     06/01/2010   06/10/2015   5 years and 9 months 2 levels of jurisdiction 15209/245/2012   14656/16 05/03/2016 Vasile Brezeanu 25/07/1957     21/06/2011   12/10/2015   4 years and 3 months and 22 days 2 levels of jurisdiction 1090/283/2011*     16008/16 14/03/2016 Mihaela Daniela Butan 28/10/1980     24/11/2010   15/09/2015   4 years and 9 months and 23 days 2 levels of jurisdiction 4013/121/2011**   19929/16 04/04/2016 Daniela Alexandrina Mitrache 06/03/1971   Elena Florența Mitrache 11/03/1969     18/03/2010   04/01/2016   5 years and 9 months and 18 days 2 levels of jurisdiction 11000/299/2010