Month: January 2009
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Yukos Lawsuit
In December, I mentioned a judgment of the Court in the case of Aleksanyan, one of the former executives of the now defunct Russian oil company Yukos. Today the EU Observer reported that the Court declared a claim of the shareholders of that company admissible.
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Annual Report of the Court
Yesterday, at a press conference in Strasbourg, the Court presented its annual report. For Court watchers, the report presents a familiar continuation of the trends of the last few years. A rising number of Court judgments (1,543: up 3%) and 30,163: up 11%), but an
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Environmental Pollution Judgment
It is widely known that the extraction of precious metals from mines often happens by using dangerous chemical substances. If not properly used, such substances can cause damage to the health of people living in the vicinity of such a mine and to the environment.
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New Issue EHRLR
As the International Law Reporter notifies, a new edition of the European Human Rights Law Review has recently appeared (2008, no. 6, journal accesible through Westlaw). Specifically of interest for watchers of the European Court of Human Rights is an article by Philip Leach, entitled
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Speech of Court’s President on Social Rights
Last week, the Court’s president Jean-Paul Costa spoke at the invitation of the Brussels Bar on social rights and the ECHR. Amongst others, he pointed out that the Court is increasingly showing, in its judgments, its awareness of the importance of the European Social Charter
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After the Judgments – Consequences
For all those curious to learn more about what happens once the Court has issued a judgment, I would like to refer you to this clear overview provied by the Council of Europe, full of links and examples. Particularly useful to get an insight into
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United by Force
States should be extremely careful to intervene in religious matters and if they do so at all, they should do it in a neutral way. That is the outcome in the case of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and other v. Bulgaria,
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Pilot Judgment on Russian Non-Enforcement
Burdov returns – that could be the motto of last week’s Court judgment in Burdov v. Russia (No. 2). Anatolyi Burdov is an applicant that cannot fail to arouse sympathy. In the 1980s he helped in the emergency operations after the Chernobyl nuclear diaster and
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Court Starts Addressing Georgian-Russian Conflict
The Court issued a press release today which indicates that it has started to deal with the delicate issue of claims arising from last summer’s Georgian-Russian war. This concerns individual complaints, not the inter-state complaint. Here is the full text: A Chamber of the European
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(Belgian) Jury Trial System Counter to ECHR
The Court’s judgment on Tuesday in the case of Taxquet v. Belgium has led to a lot of debate in that country. The applicant in the case was one of the convicted persons in the large trial in the highly publicised case concerning the murder