Year: 2013
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Article on Draft Protocol 16
Dr Paul Gragl of the City University London has written an article about the Draft Protocol 16 (yet to be formally adopted). The article, entitled ‘(Judicial) Love is Not a One-Way Street: The EU Preliminary Reference Procedure as a Model for ECtHR Advisory Opinions under…
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NGO Reaction to Draft Protocol 15 and Comment
Dear readers, it is my pleasure to host another guest post on this blog. This time by dr Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Surrey. He has written some short comments on the very recent Open Letter of a group of leading human rights NGOs…
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New Academic Articles on the ECHR
The newest edition of SIM’s ‘Online Contents’ on human rights publications (March 2013) is out now. It includes a number of ECHR-related publications. By far the most concern the various issues of the European Human Rights Law Review of last year (2012). In issue 1:…
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My New Work on the Significant Disadvantage Admissibility Criterion
I have just posted my new book chapter on the European Convention’s admissibility article of the lack of a significant disadvantage on SSRN. The contribution, to be published later this year in an edited volume, is entitled ‘Significantly Insignificant? The Life in the Margins of…
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Accession of EU to ECHR Draft Agreement: Finally Finalised
It has taken some time, not just because of the legal complexities but also because of political reasons, but now it is finally there: this past Friday the Draft Agreement on Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights (see page…
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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 This week the Court decided (in an unpublished decision) to adjourn the consideration of over 2,500 prisoner voting rights cases until at the latest September 2013.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…