Month: October 2011
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Trying it Twice
Rare are the cases in which applicants win their case in Strasbourg and then return to Strasbourg and again win a case when they are not satisfied with the way the state handles the outcome. This happened in this week’s judgment in the case of
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New Book on Non-ECHR Monitoring in Council of Europe
Gauthier de Beco, of the Centre for Philosophy of Law at the University of Louvain, has written ‘Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of Europe’ published with Routlegde. Finally a book that introduces and systematically compares, in short introductions in one volume, all the
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Hearing on the Katyń Massacre Case
Today history is featuring in the European Court of Human Rights. A hearing is currently being held on the aftermath of the Katyń massacre, a notorious episode of the Second World War. In 1940 the secret police of the Soviet Union murdered over 21,000 people,
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Article on Supreme Courts and Evolutive Interpretation of the ECHR
Eirik Bjorge of the universities of Oxford and Oslo has published an article in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (Vol. 9, issue 1, 2011), entitled ‘National Supreme Courts and the Development of ECHR Rights’ in which he looked at the cases of the United
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A History of Violations in Statistics per State
The European Court of Human Rights has published an online statistical overview of its entire history of judgments grouped per state in pie charts ‘Statistics on Judgments per State’. It covers the whole period of 1959 to 2010. For each country it shows a division