Year: 2012
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Sejdic and Finci – Lack of Bosnian Progress
The Grand Chamber judgment of 2009 in the case of Sejdic and Finci has still not been implemented. In the judgment, on which I reported here, the Court found that the rights of two persons, of Roma and Jewish origin respectively, had been violated by…
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Some Progress on EU Accession to the ECHR
It seems that after months of internal talks within the EU some form of consensus has been reached on a common position which will finally allow negotiations with the non-EU ECHR state parties to resume. This is the conclusion of Stian Øby Johansen of the University…
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Functional Analysis of ECJ-ECtHR Relationship
Tommaso Pavone of the University of Chicago has posted a very interesting research paper on the functional relationships between the two main European Courts. The paper, posted on SSRN, is entitled ‘The Past and Future Relationship of the European Court of Justice and the European…
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Report on Interim Measures in Asylum and Expulsion Cases
The European Legal Network on Asylum (ELENA) has published a report on the rule 39 interim measures in the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. As opposed to the quantitative figures on such measures, which can be found in the Court’s annual reports,…
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New ECHR Readings
Our SIM Documentation Centre has again prepared its monthly update on human rights articles. I am here showing all the articles related to the European Convention of Human Rights, as far as I had not yet reported on them earlier: The International Journal of Constitutional…
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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…