Month: April 2012
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New Academic Articles in French on ECHR
The newest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme has been published (No. 90, april 2012). It features no less than four articles on the European Convention on Human Rights: •Marie-Aude Beernaert, Christian Charrière-Bournazel, & Yvan Jeanneret, Les suites de l’arrêt Salduz en
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Seminar on How to Litigate in Strasbourg
Trier’s Academy of European Law is organising a seminar in Strasbourg entitled ‘How to Litigate before the European Court of Human Rights’. The seminar will be held in French and English (simultaneous translation) and is geared towards lawyers in private practice, government officials and other
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Factsheets of Case-Law in German and Russian
In a significant new step in its case-law information policy, the European Court of Human Rights has now made available its thematic factsheets on case-law in both German and Russian. A very important information tool for applicants and their lawyers in German and Russian speaking
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Execution of Court Judgments Report
This month the newest report on the supervision of the execution of judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights was published. It covers the work of the Committee of Ministers in this regard over 2011. Although the Committee is becoming overburdened too
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New Belgian Judge Elected
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assemble of the Council of Europe elected the new European Court of Human Rights judge in respect of Belgium. From the three candidates, Paul Lemmens received a majority of votes cast (85 out of 158). Of the three candidates (see their CV’s
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Academic Report on UK and ECHR
Finally, a thorough academic perspective in the British debate on the ECHR has been published. A new Equality and Human Rights Commission research report (no. 83) was written by a team of three researchers of London Metropolitan University: Alice Donald, Jane Gordon, and Philip Leach.
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Brighton Outcomes
The Brighton Declaration is finally there. It was adopted last Friday in the English seaside resort where ministers of the 47 state parties to the European Convention on Human Rights came together to discuss reforming the Court. As I predicted last week, the final text
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Brighton Has Started
Today, the formal part of the Brighton conference has started. The final declaration is due to be adopted tomorrow. After all the months of preparations, the at times scathing attacks on the Court and the not always very nuanced discussions, it now seems that the
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René Cassin ECHR Moot Court
As has now become a good tradition, the René Cassin competition will take place again this year in Strasbourg. The competition is a french-language European Convention on Human Rights moot court for university students, named after the second president of the European Court. This the
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Brighton
As negotiations and preparations are ongoing for the meeting of Ministers later this week on ECHR reform in Brighton, here are a few updates: * A new joint NGO Statement on Brighton * An academic initiative of the University of Sussex calling for wider support