Month: May 2010
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Updates on Communicated Cases
A good way to keep track of cases is a special update service on the website of the Court. Each application that comes to the Court’s registry and is not deemed by the Court’s judges to be clearly inadmissible, will be further considered by the
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Court Judgment Implementation in Romania and Moldova
Both Moldova and Romania need to step up their current efforts to ensure that the European Court’s judgments are fully implemented. That is the main conclusion of the of Christos Pourgourides, PACE rapporteur on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.
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Hate Speech Decision on Le Pen
It is my pleasure to feature another guest post on this blog by professor Dirk Voorhoof of Ghent University on last week’s Court decision in the case of Le Pen v. France (available only in French), the (in)famous French politician: Admissibility decision in the case
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(Lack of) Follow-up on Sejdic and Finci
In December last year the European Court of Human Rights ruled that some provisions of the Bosnian Constitution, as negotiated in the context of the Dayton Peace Agreement, violated the ECHR. Sejdic and Finci (shown on the photo) were prevented from running for certain political
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Article on Principle of Effectiveness
The newest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 79, No. 2, 2010) contains an article by Daniel Rietiker, who works at the registry of the Court. It is entitled ‘The Principle of “Effectiveness” in the Recent Jurisprudence of the European Court of