Month: March 2011
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Two Cases Referred to Grand Chamber
Recently, a panel of five judges of the European Court of Human Rights decided to refer two cases on which previously sections of the Court pronounced themselves, to the Grand Chamber. It concerns the cases of Kurić and Others v. Slovenia, on the rights of
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Conference on ECHR and Detention
In their collaborative series of lectures and conferences, the French Council of State and the European Court of Human Rights are organising a conference on ‘the European Law Applying to Detention’. The conference will be held in the evening of Monday 28 March from 17h00
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Enhanced Supervision by Committee of Ministers of Priority Cases
This week, the Committee of Ministers held its first meeting of 2011 to supervise the execution of judgments of the European Court. As part of the Interlaken reform process the Committee has introduced a new working method. In order to give the most intense attention
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Discrimination of HIV-Positive Persons Judgment
Today the Court concluded in a case against Russia that the refusal of a residence permit to an Uzbek national solely because he was HIV-positive was in violation of the European Convention of Human Rights. The case of Kiyutin v Russia related to a man
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ECHR Articles in Newest Issue of HRLR
The March issue (vol. 11, issue 1, 2011) of the Human Rights Law Review includes a number of articles on the ECHR. * Steven Greer, ‘Should Police Threats to Torture Suspects Always be Severely Punished? Reflections on the Gäfgen Case’ In Gäfgen v Germany the
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Article on EU Antitrust and ECHR
The connections between EU antitrust law and the ECHR receive increasing attention. Earlier, Felix Ronkes Agerbeek guest posted about it on this blog here. Now, Wouter Wils, connected to the European Commission and to King’s College London, has published an upcoming article on SSRN, to
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The Court’s Practice Directions for Litigants
A special page of the website of the European Court of Human Rights is dedicated to practice directions. These directions contain clear and succinct information on a number of aspects of the procedures before the European Court and are mainly directed at lawyers litigating cases
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New Book on NGOs and ECHR
Loveday Hodson of Leicester University has published the book ‘NGOs and the Struggle for Human Rights in Europe’ with Hart Publishing. It focuses on the extent and effects of NGO involvement in litigation at the European Court of Human Rights – a fascinating topic! This
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ECHR, Counter-Terrorism and Refugees
Jens Vedsted-Hansen of Aarhus University School of Law has published an article entitled ‘The European Convention on Human Rights, Counter-Terrorism, and Refugee Protection’ in the Refugee Survey Quarterly (vol. 29, No. 4, pp.189-206). This the the abstract: The legal developments pertaining to the non-refoulement principle
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Article on ECHR and Domestic Violence
Lee Hasselbacher has published ‘State Obligations Regarding Domestic Violence: The European Court of Human Rights, Due Diligence, And International Legal Minimums of Protection’ in the Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights (Vol. 8, No. 2, 2010). The article places the Eurpean Court’s Opuz judgment