Month: June 2012
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ESIL Reflection on Brighton
Laurence Helfer of Duke University has posted a very interesting ‘reflection’ on the website of the European Society of International Law on the outcomes of the Brighton Summit on the European Court. It is entitled ‘The Burdens and Benefits of Brighton’. this is the author’s
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Important Judgment on Statelessness
Earlier this week, the Grand Chamber of the Court delivered its judgment in the case of Kuric v. Slovenia and found violations of Articles 8, 13 and 14 ECHR. The Court found that Slovenia had violated the rights of a group of residents of Slovenia,
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New Judges Elected in Respect of Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Poland
Yesterday and today, the Parliamentary Assembly elected five new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. Yesterday, the new Swedish judge was elected: Helena Jäderblom. She is currently a Justice at the Supreme Administrative Court. Today, the four others were elected. For the United
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New Version of HUDOC Search Engine Launched
This week the Court launched a new version of the what is probably its key online resource: the HUDOC case-law database, which includes judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, decisions and reports of the former European Commission of Human Rights and
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Special Account for the European Court of Human Rights
To be able to do more work, the Court is constantly trying to increase its efficiency, but in addition it still needs additional capacity in terms of personnel. In order to enable that, a new special account for the Ccourt has been announced on which
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Manual on ECHR and the Environment
The Council of Europe has just published the second edition of its ”Manual on Human Rights and the Environment”, both in English and French. The book covers how both the European Court (the largest part of the publication) and the European Committee of Social Rights
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European Parliamentarians Welcome Resuming of EU – Council of Europe Talks
The joint informal body of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament (of the EU) hase welcomed the Committee of Ministers’ decision to resume talk on EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. In a joint press release,
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Book and Launch on ECHR and Homosexuality
Paul Johnson of the University of York has written a book entitled ‘Homosexuality and the European Court on Human Rights’ to be published in October by Routledge. This is the abstract: This is the first book-length study of the Court’s jurisprudence in respect of sexual
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Progress in EU-ECHR Negotiations?
As MultiRights Blog reports, the negotiations on the European Union’s accession to the ECHR seem to have reached a new phase. Last week, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Minister instructed the Steering Committee for Human Rights to pursue negotations with the EU in order
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New Policy on Reports of Judgments and Decisions
Even though most people will use the HUDOC database these days to find cases, the sheer amount of output of the Strasbourg Court means that authoritative selections of case-law remain very valuable. The Court’s own Reports of Judgments and Decisions are the most important source in