Year: 2010
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
Here is an overview of recent ECHR-related articles in leading academic journals (and less recent ones, that I did not notify before). First, the Human Rights Law Journal features two articles on the ECHR in its latest issue (vol. 9, no. 4, 2009): * A.…
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Court’s Second Advisory Opinion
The Court has just issued its second Advisory Opinion ever, entitled ‘On certain legal questions concerning the lists of candidates submitted with a view to the election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights’. The questions at issue arose from the fact that…
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Upcoming Second Advisory Opinion of the Court
This Friday the Court will issue its second Advisory Opinion ever. It was requested by the Committee of Ministers (to be precise, their deputies) last year and concerns the following question: “whether a list of candidates for election as a judge in respect of a…
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Russian Duma Has Accepted Protocol 14 Today
The Russian Duma has ratified Protocol 14 today (a majority of 392 votes out of 450). The other branch of the legislative, the Federation Council, now has to accept it still. Following protracted negotiations it will now be guaranteed for Russia that a Russian judge…
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Four Freedoms Award 2010 Granted to European Court
It has just been made public that the International Four Freedoms Award 2010 will be granted to the European Court of Human Rights. This annual award was created to honour the Four Freedoms, as first declared by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on January 6th 1941…
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Article on ECHR and Refugees
I have not reported it earlier, but a few months ago Karl C. Procaccini published the article ‘Constructing the Right “Not to Be Made a Refugee” at the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights’ in the online Harvard Human Rights Journal. This is the…
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UK’s Stop and Search Violates ECHR
Just a very short notification to report that the Court decided today that the United Kingdom’s stop and search powers for the police are too wide and that no adequate safeguards against abuse exist. The Terrorism Act 2000 permits any uniformed police officer to stop…
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Landmark Judgment on Human Trafficking
Yesterday, the European Court passed a landmark judgment on human trafficking in the case of Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia. The case concerned the death of Oxana Rantseva and was brought by her father. Oxana moved from Russia to Cyprus and started to work as…
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Part of Bosnian Constitution Contravenes ECHR
Just before Christmas the European Court of Human Rights issued a very important Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two men complained of their ineligibility to stand for election to the House of Peoples and the…
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Happy New Year and Guest Post
Dear readers, first of all a very happy and good new year to all of you! The past year has seen this blog grow to over 70,000 pageviews in 2009 and I hope to continue the work in 2010. As a kick off, we start…