Year: 2012
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Liber Amicorum for Bratza on Freedom of Expression
This week a special collection of essays was offered to the Court’s president to mark the end of his many years in Strasbourg, first in the European Commission of Human Rights and later at the Court, since its fulltime start in 1998. Contrary to a usual Liber Amicorum, this one…
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New Issue RTDH
The newest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme is out now (No. 92 – October 2012). It includes the following ECHR-related articles: • Katia Lucas, Revirements de jurisprudence et non-rétroactivité de la « loi » : la Cour européenne des droits de…
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New ECHR Publications
Albert Sánchez Graells (University of Hull), has published a working paper on SSRN, entitled ‘The EU’s Accession to the ECHR and Due Process Rights in EU Competition Law Matters: Nothing New Under the Sun?’. This is the abstract: In light of the ongoing discussion on…
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(European) Human Rights and the UK Constitution
Colm O’Cinneide of University College London has written the report ‘Human rights and the UK constitution’, commissioned by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the author’s own words, it ‘makes the argument that the existing relationship between UK law and the…
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Extraordinary Rendition, Forced Labour, and Evidence Obtained by Torture
There are three cases, among the many decided by the Court in the past few weeks, which I would like to highlight. They deal with testimony potentially obtained through torture, forced labour and extraordinary rendition respectively. The first is the case of El Haski v. Belgium…
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New Issue HRLR
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review has been published (vol. 12, no. 3, 2012) and includes a number of articles concerning the European Convention and the European Court: Mathias Möschel, ‘Is the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law on Anti-Roma Violence…
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Court Condemns Homophobic Treatment in Prisons
For the first time in its existence, the European Court of Human Rights found that a complaint related to sexual orientation discrimination yielded a violation of Article 3 ECHR. The judgment of X. v. Turkey (available only in French), delivered last week, concerns a young homosexual…
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New Academic Articles on Al-Jedda, Al-Skeini, and EU Accession to ECHR
The most recent issue of the Military Law and the Law of War Review (Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre, vol. 50, nos. 3-4 of 2011) has been published. It includes an ‘agora’ / special thematic part on the Al-Jedda and Al-Skeini judgments…
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HUDOC Tutorial Video
Undoubtedly one of the most-used human rights case-law search engines in the world is the European Court of Human Rights’ own HUDOC database with all its case-law. Earlier this year, the user interface of the database was relaunched with a different look and more search…
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New Judges Elected in Respect of Bosnia, Croatia, Moldova, and Russia
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected judges to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of four countries. The new Bosnian judge will be Mr Faris Vehabovic, judge and vice-president of the Bosnian Constitutional Court and ad hoc judge at…