Year: 2008
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Grand Chamber Judgment Maslov v. Austria
Yesterday, the Grand Chamber issued its judgment in the Maslov case on exclusion orders. I am very grateful that Maarten den Heijer, my former colleague from Leiden and an expert on migration law and human rights, was so kind to write a guest blog message…
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New Article on Interim Measures
The newest issue of the European Constitutional Law Review (vol. 4, issue 1, 2008, pp. 41-63) contains an article by colleagues from Utrecht and Ghent universities on interim measures: Apart from being a case note on the judgment in Olaechea Cahuas v. Spain, it contains…
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On the Record
Since George Orwell wrote his famous novel on the dangers of an all-controlling Big Brother in the 1940s the possibilities to record human behavior have greatly increased. The challenges to the right to privacy are obvious, but audio or videotaping behavior can also form important…
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Judgment on Suicide in the Army
On Tuesday 17 June the Court found a violation of the right to life in a case involving suicide: Abdullah Yilmaz v. Turkey. The case concerned a 20-year-old who committed suicide during the performance of his compulsory military service. The immediate trigger for the sad…
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Television judgment
Yesterday, the Court unanimously found a violation of Article 10 ECHR (freedom of expression) in an Armenian media case: Meltex Ltd & Mesrop Movsesyan v. Armenia. The case concerned the sevenfold refusal of the Armenian authorities to grant a broadcasting license to the Meltex broadcasting…
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Dealing with Conflicts of Rights
Dealing with conflicting fundamental rights is one of the great challenges of any constitutional court and the European Court is no exception. A recent paper offers an intriguing combination of the academic and the insider’s perspective. In ‘Rights in Conflict: the European Court of Human…
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A People’s History of the ECHR
For many Strasbourg watchers a certain curiosity remains after reading new judgments: what happens subsequently? Of course, the formal answer can be found in the work of the Committee of Ministers which monitors state compliance with the Court’s case law. But beyond that, it is…
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More Judgments on Detention Conditions
Yesterday, the Court found a violation of Article 3 in the case of Kotsaftis v. Greece. Kotsaftis suffered of hepatitis B and complained that he had incurred the disease during detention. His medical condition was so bad that he needed to be treated in hospital…
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Human Rights During Armed Conflict
The manner of applying human rights to situations of armed conflict has been a topic of heated debate in academia and in courts in the last decade. A recent article in Global Jurist addresses the issue. Federico Sperotto’s Law in Times of War: The Case…
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Hurrah!
Today this blog reached 1000 page views! I am very happy that news on the Court’s judgments, on recent academic articles and other ECHR-related topics have found such a large audience (from 44 different countries so far) in less than three weeks. All the more…