CASE OF SINDELY v. HUNGARY
Violation of Article 6 - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Civil proceedings;Article 6-1 - Reasonable time)
Krzysztof Wojtyczek;Nona Tsotsoria;Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer
4. The applicants, a married couple, were born in 1952 and 1954 respectively and live in Piliscsaba. 5. On 7 December 2001 the first applicant was deliberately shot by one of his colleagues and suffered serious injuries making him disabled. 6. On an unspecified date in 2004, the first applicant and his family (including his wife, the second applicant) brought an action in damages against the first applicant’s employer. On 14 June 2005 the president of the Pest County Labour Court ordered the priority treatment of the case. 7. On 19 January 2006 the Pest County Labour Court found for the applicants in an interim judgment establishing the well-foundedness of the legal basis of the claim. The first instance interim judgment was upheld by the Pest County Court on 5 January 2007. 8. The exact compensation amount to be paid by the employer was decided by a judgment of the Pest County Labour Court on 9 November 2010. The decision was upheld and partly amended by the final judgment of the Pest County Court adopted on 4 May 2011.