Year: 2010
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Book on Peaceful Protest and ECHR
A new book which covers and analyses articles 10 and 11 ECHR in the context of peaceful protest has just been published. It was written by David Mead of the Norwich Law School at University of East Anglia and is entitled ‘The New Law of…
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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…
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Gender Justice Perspective on ECHR Case-Law
I would like to bring the Gender Justice Observatory to your attention. This website is, in its own words an “interactive database of important decisions from national, regional and international courts and tribunals and of strategies to work with courts and tribunals on issues related…
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PACE Rapporteur on Interlaken
The rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly, Mrs Marie-Louise Bemelmans Videc, has drafted a report which is the basis of the Assembly’s reaction to the Interlaken Conference. The Assembly’s resolution (no. 1726) was adopted today. The report…
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Article on Right to Life Jurisprudence
The newest issue (Vol 14, Issue 2, 2010) of the International Journal of Human Rights contains an article by Juliet Chevalier-Watts (University of Waikato, New Zealand), entitled ‘A rock and a hard place: has the European Court of Human Rights permitted discrepancies to evolve in…
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New Ukrainian Judge Elected
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Mrs Ganna Yudkivska as judge with respect to Ukraine. She knows the Strasbourg system from the inside, as she has experience as a lawyer within the Court’s registry for five years and as a human…