European Court of Human Rights

 

 

 

FOURTH SECTION

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASE OF PASCOI AND OTHERS v. ROMANIA

 

(Applications nos. 8675/06, 60826/10, 27616/11, 67634/11, 74155/13, 1152/14, 10538/14 and 41786/14)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JUDGMENT

(Revision)[1]

 

 

STRASBOURG

 

31 October 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

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




In the case of Pascoi and Others v. Romania, (request for revision of the judgment of 7 January 2016),

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

          Vincent A. De Gaetano, President,
          Egidijus Kūris,
          Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, judges,
and Andrea Tamietti, Deputy Section Registrar,

Having deliberated in private on 10 October 2017,

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

PROCEDURE

1.  The case originated in eight applications against Romania lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”). The applicants’ details and the dates of lodging of the applications are set out in the table enclosed as an annex to this judgment.

2.  In a judgment delivered on 7 January 2016, the Court held that there had been a violation of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention on account of the non-enforcement or of the delayed enforcement of domestic judgments given in the applicants’ favour. The Court also decided that the respondent State shall ensure the enforcement of the domestic decisions concerned and award the applicants amounts varying between 1,200 and 3,600 euros (EUR) for non-pecuniary damage and EUR 15,000 for costs and expenses.

3.  On 10 and 26 February and 21 March 2016 the Government informed the Court that they had learned that the applicants Ileana Pascoi, Ionel Stănescu, Gheorghe Podaru, Victor Soltuz-Mocanu, Dobre Ivan and Manole Grosu had died on 11 August 2011, 31 October 2010, 5 and 18 January 2015, 13 August 2015 and 6 May 2011 respectively. They accordingly requested revision of the judgment within the meaning of Rule 80 of the Rules of Court.

4.  On 28 April 2016 the Court considered the request for revision and decided to give the applicants’ representatives three weeks in which to submit any observations. No reply had been received by the Court within the above-mentioned time-limit. In a letter of 13 July 2016 the Government informed the Court that they maintained their request for the revision of the judgment.

THE LAW

THE REQUEST FOR REVISION

5.  Rule 80 of the Rules of Court states, in so far as relevant, as follows:

“A party may, in the event of the discovery of a fact which might by its nature have a decisive influence and which, when a judgment was delivered, was unknown to the Court and could not reasonably have been known to that party, request the Court ... to revise that judgment.

...”

6.  The Government requested revision of the judgment of 7 January 2016, which they had been unable to execute because six of the applicants had died before the judgment had been adopted. They submitted that they became aware of this information only in February 2016. In their view, this ought to be considered a fact of decisive influence which was unknown when the judgment was delivered, within the meaning of Rule 80. Furthermore, neither the applicants’ representatives nor their legal heirs ever informed the Court about the applicants’ death or of their wish to pursue the proceedings on the applicants’ behalf before the delivery of the judgment. Therefore, the Government asked the Court to strike out the case from its list in respect of the deceased applicants and to amend accordingly the award given under Article 41 of the Convention.

7.  The Court considers that the deaths of the above-mentioned applicants constitute indeed facts of “decisive influence” on the outcome of the judgment within the meaning of Rule 80 § 1.

8.  The Court further takes note that the applicants in question had died before the Court adopted its judgment in the current case. However, their representatives did not inform the Court about the applicants’ death, nor have they indicated whether the legal heirs expressed their wish to pursue the proceedings on the applicants’ behalf. Furthermore, the Court is prepared to accept that these decisive facts could not reasonably have been expected to be known to the Government, who gained knowledge of the deaths of the applicants in February 2016 and filed the requests for revision of the judgment in February and March 2016, within the time-limit provided for in Rule 80.

9.  In view of the above, the Court accepts the Government’s requests for revision of the judgment of 7 January 2016 (see, for instance and mutatis mutandis, Ciorcan and Others v. Romania, nos. 29414/09 and 44841/09, § 9, 17 January 2017).

10.  The Court further recalls that it has been its practice to strike applications out of the list of cases in the absence of any heir or close relative who has expressed a wish to pursue the application (ibid., § 10). It further finds no special circumstances relating to respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols which require it to continue the examination of the application in respect of the applicants Ileana Pascoi, Ionel Stănescu, Gheorghe Podaru, Victor Soltuz-Mocanu, Dobre Ivan and Manole Grosu.

11.  Accordingly, the applications should be struck out of the Court’s list of cases in so far as they relate to these applicants.

FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT, UNANIMOUSLY,

1.  Decides to revise the judgment in so far as it relates to the applicants Ileana Pascoi, Ionel Stănescu, Gheorghe Podaru, Victor Soltuz-Mocanu, Dobre Ivan and Manole Grosu;

 

2.  Decides to strike the applications out of the list of cases in so far as they concern the complaints of the applicants Ileana Pascoi, Ionel Stănescu, Gheorghe Podaru, Victor Soltuz-Mocanu, Dobre Ivan and Manole Grosu.

        Andrea Tamietti                                                     Vincent A. De Gaetano
Deputy Section Registrar                                                          President


ANNEX

 

No.	Application no. Date of introduction	Applicant name Date of birth Date of registration
1.	8675/06 17/02/2006	Ileana PASCOI 01/07/1935 Elena HAVA 31/03/1936
2.	60826/10 20/09/2010 (3 applicants)	Constantin RĂDOI 27/10/1944 Raluca Cristina NEGREA GHEORGHIU 25/03/1975 Ioana Georgia Alexandra Mândra GHEORGHIU NEGREA 06/07/1972
3.	27616/11 22/04/2011	VECHEA ASOCIAȚIUNE FUNEBRALĂ ROMÂNĂ (Old Romanian Funeral Association)
4.	67634/11 17/10/2011	Elena POPA 12/09/1951
5.	74155/13 16/11/2013	Zorița PISEK 12/01/1935
6.	1152/14 19/12/2013	Ion DRAGOTOIU 13/04/1950
7.	10538/14 23/01/2014	Maria UNGURU 13/08/1952
8.	41786/14 27/05/2014 (188 applicants)	Petrică PODARU 14/11/1956 Viorel ANDREI 27/01/1967 Victor ANGHELATO 28/10/1974 Săndel ANTON 23/10/1969 Aurelia ARAMĂ 23/12/1961 Alecu ARBĂNAȘU 24/03/1957 Frusinica ARBĂNAȘU 02/03/1958 Florentin ARICIU 08/12/1956 Marian Costel AVRAM 30/07/1963 Dinel BĂCANU 01/07/1969 Fănica BĂDIN 29/07/1959 Gheorghe BĂDIN 08/06/1956 Leana BĂJENARU 09/11/1953 Daniel BĂLAN 28/09/1971 Angheluță BĂLUȚĂ 13/05/1962 Silvia BARBU 03/01/1969 Aurel BĂTRÂNU 20/06/1949 Dumitru BĂTRÂNU 07/09/1956 Ion BECU 02/08/1971 Constantin BÂȘCEANU 31/03/1955 Gheorghe BOBOC 20/10/1965 Dănuț BOGOS 29/05/1957 Marian BOITOS 22/03/1972 Ion BOLDEANU 18/11/1955 Florin-Radu BORTEANU 16/05/1950 Alexe BOTEA 02/08/1955 Vasile BRATU 04/06/1949 Nicu BUCUR 15/08/1950 George BUF 20/11/1950 Virgil BUF 19/12/1955 Ștefana BUF 20/02/1959 Ionica BUZOIANU 29/08/1965 Victor BUZOIANU 01/04/1957 Costel CĂLIN 03/06/1953 Elena CANCIU 16/01/1961 Gheorghe CANCIU 19/01/1958 Lilica Marinela CANCIU 06/06/1971 Ghiță CANDET 15/08/1946 Marian CÂRNU 21/05/1953 Voica CATRINA 10/05/1951 Mariana CERNAT 04/07/1967 Dinu CHIOREANU 20/05/1959 Victor CHIOREANU 14/11/1950 Florentin CHIȚOIU 13/01/1977 Octavian CHIȚOIU 12/12/1949 Vasile CHITOIU 20/10/1953 Matei CIOCÂRLAN 26/04/1957 Gheorghe COMĂNOIU 28/01/1952 Aurelian CONSTANTIN 29/04/1966 Constantin CONSTANTIN 16/09/1950 Maria CONSTANTIN 20/07/1954 Marinel CONSTANTIN 12/12/1955 Vasile CONSTANTIN 18/02/1969 Stănel Doru CRĂCIUN 22/08/1962 Vasile CRISTEA 26/09/1949 Rodica CUCU 10/09/1960 Liviu CULACHE 04/02/1971 Vasilică DARIE 05/11/1960 Gheorghe DECIANU 03/03/1956 Neculai DERMENGIU 07/05/1959 Fănel DIMA 21/09/1964 Florentina DINU 09/11/1974 Maria DINU 30/11/1957 Gigel DINULESCU 17/08/1952 Constantin DOBRE 02/04/1959 Tudorel DOBRE 25/11/1969 Victorița DOBRE 04/11/1968 Mariana DRĂGUȘANU 23/12/1967 Gheorghe DRĂGUȚ 22/08/1969 Gheorghe DOBROTĂ 21/08/1956 Maria Ecaterina DUDĂU 15/03/1953 Dumitru DUMINICĂ 01/01/1953 Valentin Adrian DUMITRU 05/08/1975 Cristache DURBACĂ 24/09/1970 Dorian DUȚU 31/01/1961 Ionel ENACHE 05/05/1971 Mihaela ENACHE 03/01/1973 Alexandru FLOREA 16/01/1958 Marin FRONEA 08/07/1949 Petrica FRONEA 05/09/1952 Victor GEREA 28/09/1955 Virginia GHELT 02/11/1967 Emilia GHILINȚĂ 18/01/1966 Iuliana GHIMPE 13/07/1961 Ilie GHINDĂ 05/05/1955 Mihaela-Adelina GHIONU 02/03/1977 Mihai GRIGORE 15/02/1959 Neculai GRIGORE 28/08/1956 Manole GROSU 22/03/1957 Leana CHIBURȚĂ 04/07/1960 Traian HAGIU 27/04/1954 Liliana HORNEȚ 04/06/1969 Marioara ICONARU 05/05/1958 Marioara ILIE 04/06/1965 Vasile ILIE 23/03/1960 Flavian-Ioan IONESCU 17/10/1971 Mădălina-Daniela IONIȚĂ 08/12/1967 Sorin IOSIF 30/04/1975 Camil IOVU 21/08/1962 Ion ISTRATI 13/10/1950 Valentina ISTRATI 16/01/1956 Dobre IVAN 28/12/1953 Stere JIRU 21/04/1964 Gheorghe LEOCĂ 18/02/1950 Radu LUPAȘCU 02/07/1955 Jan MANEA 20/07/1956 Petre MANEA 09/06/1959 Nicușor MARCU 25/11/1967 Mița MARIN 29/05/1958 Nicolae-Cicerone MATEI 20/05/1970 Cristina-Maria STAICU 14/05/1979 Fănica MERIȘOR 16/03/1956 Carmen Gina MIHAI 24/04/1964 Constantin MIHALACHE 27/06/1956 Vasile MILEA 29/02/1952 Marinela MIRCEA 23/12/1964 Ene MIRON 06/10/1956 Petrică MITITELU 25/05/1962 Adrian MOCANU 19/12/1966 Nicu MOISE 01/05/1975 Ștefan-Giorgel MOISOIU 23/11/1970 Florentina MOTOC 28/05/1972 Florica MOTOC 29/05/1950 Milică MUMJIEV 02/09/1955 Aurel MUREȘANU 20/08/1956 Neculița NEACȘU 17/06/1955 Nicușoara NEAGU 14/11/1952 Radu NEAGU 15/10/1949 Ion NECULAI 14/12/1970 Lucia Daniela NEGRIȘAN (MOCANU) 02/08/1968 Dumitru NICA 09/05/1956 Gheorghe NISTOR 10/10/1965 Cristinel NIȚĂ 26/02/1973 Rodica NOGHEA 08/04/1957 Ionel OANCEA 02/05/1957 Ion PANTELIMON 01/02/1955 Ion PĂTRĂNOIU 27/03/1949 Demetra-Diana PĂVĂLACHE 02/09/1969 Ioana PETCU 04/02/1952 Toma PETCU 31/05/1953 Adrian PETREA 16/03/1964 Vasile PÂRLOG 30/07/1951 Gheorghe PODARU 22/01/1971 Virginia PODARU 22/03/1963 Paraschiv POPA 25/02/1967 Mihalcea POPESCU 19/10/1956 Tănțel PORCUȚ 27/06/1969 Gheorghe POTÂNGĂ 08/04/1954 Florin PUIU 28/01/1974 Marian PURCĂREA 23/10/1970 Toma PURICE 06/11/1956 Costică RĂDULESCU 26/09/1970 Răducan RĂDULESCU 02/06/1950 Vasilică RĂFOIU 27/02/1962 Valeriu Cezar ROBITU 08/12/1975 Mioara ROȘU 30/10/1966 Florentin SECHEL 04/12/1967 Flavian ȘERBAN 11/07/1962 Ionel ȘERBAN 02/09/1969 Victor SOLTUZ MOCANU 29/09/1964 Petrică STAICU 30/09/1959 Cătălin STAMATE 20/06/1972 Viorel STAMATE 08/07/1967 Viorel STAN 18/03/1965 Ionica STANCIU (VASILE) 28/03/1971 Ionel STĂNESCU 03/07/1966 Viorica ȘTIRBEI 22/08/1967 Lucian STOIAN 27/07/1957 Marian STOIAN 17/02/1960 Marin STOICA 01/10/1958 Virgil TĂBÂRCĂ 03/11/1947 Dobre TĂNASE 09/10/1950 Tache TATU 07/05/1953 Ion TOADER 04/02/1957 Neculina LUPU 14/06/1970 Fănica TRIFU 03/12/1966 Nicolaie TUDOR 13/12/1947 Ionică TUDOR 18/01/1952 Liliana URSE 28/07/1961 Daniela VASILE 06/11/1967 Fănica VLAD 24/08/1961 Cristian VOICU 10/02/1961 Ionuţ VOICU 14/11/1980 Mariana VOICU 01/01/1961 George ZAINEA 23/10/1958 Iuliana ZECA 22/04/1968 Costică VLAD 01/12/1960 Mohamed MOUMENE 28/06/1959

 




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[1].  Revision of the judgment of 7 January 2016.