Year: 2010
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Three Property Rights Judgments
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights issued a number of important judgments which all evolve around the protection of property. In Sarica and Dilaver v. Turkey (available only in French), the Court held that the widespread practice in Turkey of de facto expropriation…
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European Court Awarded Four Freedoms Award 2010
Last Friday, the European Court of Human Rights was awarded the Four Freedoms Award 2010 in Middelburg, the Netherlands. The Awards are presented yearly to individuals and organisations who have worked towards the realisation of president F.D. Roosevelt’s four freedoms: the freedom of speech and…
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Two New Academic Articles on ECHR
The newest overview of academic articles of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University, where I am based, is available online. Two articles relate directly to the European Convention on Human Rights: * P. Giosa, ‘The condemnation of Turkey by the ECHR…
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Blog Anniversary: 2 years!
Today marks the second anniversary of this blog, which started on 26 may 2008 with this welcome post. Growing steadily over time, with 20,000 visitors in its first year, 70,000 in 2009 and already 50,000 in the first five months of this year, I am…
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Book and Seminar on Pilot Judgments
In two weeks time a new book on the issue of pilot judgments will be published: Philip Leach, Helen Hardman, Svetlana Stephenson & Brad K. Blitz, ‘An Analysis of ‘Pilot Judgments’ of the European Court of Human Rights and Their Impact at National Level’ (Intersentia…
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New ECHR Articles in Human Rights Law Review
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (volume 10, No. 2) has been pubished. It contains a number of ECHR-related articles. Here are the titles and abstracts: * Alastair Mowbray, ‘A Study of the Principle of Fair Balance in the Jurisprudence of the…
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Judgment on Voting Rights for the Mentally Disabled
Today the European Court of Human rights issued an important judgment in a case on voting rights for the mentally disabled: Alajos Kiss v. Hungary. The applicant in the case suffered from manic depression and had for that reason been placed under partial guardianship. Since…
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Article on ECHR and Responsibility of Member States of International Organisations
Tobias Lock of University College London has published ‘Beyond Bosphorus: The European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law on the Responsibility of Member States of International Organisations Under the European Convention on Human Rights’ on SSRN, a forthcoming article in the Human Rights Law Review.…
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EU antitrust fines and ECHR fair trial rights
It is my pleasure to post a guest contribution by my good friend Felix Ronkes Agerbeek, an excellent expert in EU law with a keen interest in human rights issues. His contribution addresses the links between two often disconnected fields: the antitrust law of the…
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Kononov Revisited: No Violation of ECHR
History may repeat itself, but may also reverse itself. Vasiliy Kononov, an admired war hero in communist times for going behind enemy lines in WW II and taking action against alleged Nazi collaborators, was – after the fall of communism in Latvia – found guilty…