Year: 2009
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Website for the Court’s 50th Anniversary
The Court is slowly increasing the visibility of its 50th anniversary on its own website. This week a special part of the website has been specifically dedicated to it, in a user-friendly format. It is a work in progress with updates throughout the course of…
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Access to Information Judgment
Last week, the European Court issued its judgment in the case of Társaság a Szabadságjogokért (the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union) v. Hungary. In the case the Court did not recognise a general right to access to information, but did indicate that in some situations the…
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New Book on Court’s Case Load Burden
As most of the readers of this blog will be very aware, the Court has been and is still struggling with its huge and growing case load of applications. In the chorus of possible solutions a new voice has been added. Ulrike Deutsch and Rüdiger…
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Report on ECHR Fact-Finding Missions
Philip Leach (the famous ECHR practioner), Costas Paraskeva, and Gordana Uzelac have undertaken extensive research on ‘International Human Rights and Fact-finding. An analysis of the fact-finding missions conducted by the European Commission and Court of Human Rights’, published online by London Metropolitan University. The very…
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Nuisance From Outside the Prison
Strasbourg watchers may have become used to the swarm of cases concerning prison conditions. But even for them, a judgment issued yesterday by the Court may contain a novelty. In Branduse v. Romania, the Court found that the state had not only violated Article 3…
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British Law Lord Heavily Criticizes European Court
The British Law Lord Hoffmann has heavily criticised the European Court of Human Rights, as the BBC reported last Saturday in a news release. In a lecture held at the Judicial Studies Board on March 19, Lord Hoffmann argued the following about the Court in…
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Protection of Journalists’ Sources
Yesterday, the Court issued its judgment in the case of Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. the Netherlands. The case deals with the protection of journalistic sources. I am very grateful that today the blog hosts a special guest blog analysis of the case by an expert…
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Amnesty and Torture
Should an amnesty for acts of torture be recognised by other states? Such was implicitly one of the underlying questions in a case decided on by the Court today. In Ould Dah v. France, the applicant – a Mauritanian army officer – complained that he…
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New Edition of a Classic ECHR Handbook
The eagerly awaited second edition of one of the classic books on ECHR law has been published this month: Harris, O’Boyle & Warbrick: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights. The book, published by Oxford University Press, has been revised in all its aspects…
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Article on Behrami and Saramati
Heike Krieger has published an article entitled ‘A Credibility Gap: The Behrami and Saramati Decision of the European Court of Human Rights’ which deals with one of the most debated decisions of the Court in the last few years. The decision of non-admissibility in Behrami…