Month: March 2013
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UK Prisoner Voting Rights Update
The continuing saga of voting rights for prisoners in the United Kingdom now includes a new episode. This week the Court decided (in an unpublished decision) to adjourn the consideration of over 2,500 prisoner voting rights cases until at the latest September 2013. The reasoning behind this…
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New Issue IAEHR
The newest edition of the annual journal Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal (vol. 5, nos. 1-2, 2013) is out now. It includes at least two articles on the European Convention: * Erick Acuña Pereda, ‘The Institutionalization of People with Mental Disabilities: Comparative Analysis between its Treatment under…
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Another Hurdle Taken for Protocol 15
Last week, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) agreed that Draft Protocol 15, which aims to reform several aspects of the Convention system, could be adopted without amendment. It did so on the basis of a report…
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Oleynikov Judgment on State Immunity
It is my pleasure to introduce a guest post by Dr Rosanne van Alebeek, a fellow human rights expert. She is an assistant professor and senior researcher at the University of Amsterdam and has particular expertise on the subject of immunities and human rights. I am…
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Pirate Bay Decision on Copyright and Freedom of Expression
Last week, The European Court issued its decision in the case submitted by two of the founders of Pirate Bay, Neij and Sunde Kolmisoppi v. Sweden. The two had been convicted for copyright infringements. The Court has recently held that copyright enforcement infringes upon freedom…
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Debate on Lautsi in ICON
The newest issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON, vol. 11, issue 1, 2013) includes a debate on the famous Lautsi judgments of the European Court on allowing a crucifix in classrooms (see my post on the Grand Chamber judgment here). Three different…
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‘Casse-toi, pauv’ con’ Satire Judgment
The former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has a reputation for being very direct and blunt. In a famous encounter at the annual ‘Salon de l’Agriculture’ in France a few years ago, when one of the visitors refused to shake his hands and said he did…
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New and Updated Case-Law Factsheets
The case-law factsheets of the Court have been updated and extended. In addition, translations in French, Russian, German, Polish, and Turkish are available on the Court’s website. Please find a list below of those factsheets which have been updated in the past half year (arranged per…
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Article on the Haas Judgment on Facilitating Suicide
Daniel Rietiker, working at the registry of the European Court of Human Rights, has published an article on the Haas case in the Harvard Human Rights Journal (vol. 25, 2012) entitled ‘From Prevention to Facilitation? Suicide in the Jurisprudence of the ECtHR in the Light of…
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New Article on EU Accession to ECHR
Christina Eckes (University of Amsterdam) has published ‘EU Accession to the ECHR: Between Autonomy and Adaptation’ in the Modern Law Review, Vol. 76, Issue 2 (2013) pp. 254-285. This is the abstract: After the European Union’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights the…