Month: December 2010
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Last Post of 2010
On this shortest day of the the year, the Court has made one last big puff and delivered over 50 judgments, at the end of a year which was both turbulent, very busy for the Strasbourg institutions, and which also saw increasing criticism on the…
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NGO Petition on Possible Fees at the Court
A large number of leading NGOs (Amnesty International, the AIRE Centre, EHRAC, the ICJ, Interights, Justice and Liberty) have launched a campaign related to one of the proposals which are being discussed in the wake of the Interlaken Reform Summit to ease the workload of…
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ECHR Case-Law Updates in Swedish
The Swedish judicial administration provides a handy, almost monthly (11 times a year) update service of ECHR case-law in the form of an electronic digest. A covenient way for all Swedish ECHR-interested and Scandinavians and others able to read Swedish. I have also added it…
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Grand Chamber Abortion Judgment on Ireland
Yesterday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rrights issued its judgment in the long-awaited case of A, B, and C v Ireland on abortion rights. Essentially, the Court held that Ireland must enable access to abortion in situations in which a woman’s…
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Lawyer’s Guide on ECHR Admissibility Criteria
Connected to yesterday’s post, the Court has launched another post-Interlaken initiative to try and stem the influx of new applications: a Partical Guide on ECHR admissibility criteria. The very elaborate document (over a 100 pages) is a clearly structured overview of the Court’s admissibility criteria,…
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Ten New Case-Law Fact Sheets
In order to stem the flood of applications and to make the Court’s jurisprudence better known, the Court has been posting so-called fact sheets on its website. These are thematic sheets with the main relevant cases in short summaries. Last week the Court added ten…
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Farewell Seminar for Judge Christos Rozakis
The Athens Bar Association and the Greek Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights are organising a seminar at the occasion of the retirement of the Greek judge Christos Rozakis from the European Court of Human rights. The event will take place on Monday 20…
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Book on Extraterritorial Reach of ECHR Wins Award
Last Friday, on human rights day, Michal Gondek’s book ‘The Reach of Human Rights in a Globalizing World: Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties’, was awarded the Max van der Stoel PhD Thesis Award at Tilburg University. A large part of the book is dedicated…
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My New Book on Margins of Conflict and the ECHR
Dear readers, allow me to highlight a book edited by myself, which has just been published with Intersentia Publishers in their Transitional Justice Series: “Margins of Conflict. The ECHR and Transitions to and from Armed Conflict”. The book is the result of a seminar organised…
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Working Paper on ‘Nullum Crimen, Nulla Poena Sine Lege’
For those readers who read French: Hélène Tigroudja of Artois University has posted a working paper on SSRN on the principle of ‘Nullum Crimen, Nulla Poena Sine Lege’ in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights: International Crimes and the Principle ‘Nullum Crimen,…