Year: 2016
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New Court Videos
The Registry has put new training videos in its series ‘COURTalks-disCOURs‘ online. The videos were made together with the Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals Programme (HELP) of the Council of Europe. The videos of around 25 minutes give an overrview of the Court’s jurispriudence…
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Handbook on European Law on Access to Justice
After an early Summer break, I am back at posting on here. Europe’s institutions may be under a lot of pressure, but at least cooperation between the European guardians of human rights is still working. The EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency and the European Court of…
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Court’s Annual Overview Series
The European Court of Human Rights has now made available in print, through Wolf Legal Publishers, its new series ‘Overview of the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights’. This yearly reflection of the Court’s jurisprudence – a reprint from the Court’s Annual Report…
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The ECHR and the UK – The Tragedy in the Form of Comedy
In the past two weeks, with the United Kingdom’s referendum on a potential Brexit approaching, the UK’s Government has been speaking with an increasingly incoherent number of voices. Home Secretary Theresa May favours the UK remaining in the European Union but leaving the European Convention…
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The Russian Response to the Prisoner Voting Judgment
The voting rights of prisoners under the European Convention on Human Rights continue to be the object of debate in some countries – whereas in others it is not an issue at all, one may add. In this context, much attention usually goes to the…
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Conference on Prisoner Voting Rights and the ECHR
The University of Liverpool, in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the PluriCourts project, is organising a two day workshop on one of the most contested ECHR-related issues in the UK: ‘Challenges to Implementing the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: Dialogues…
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Conference on European Consensus
The School of Law at the University of Portsmouth, the European University Institute (EUI) and the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool are co-organising a conference on the European consensus (EuC) method of interpretation of the European Court of Human Rights. The…
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Video on Admissibility Criteria
In an effort to increase the understanding of how the application system in Strasbourg works, the Court is constantly increasing the number of information tools. Of course, there is the ‘Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria‘, an online text with comprehensive information. To complement this, the…
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New ECHR Readings
Please find below a number of new readings on the European Convention of Human Rights, the Court, and its case-law: * B.M. Oomen, ‘A serious case of Strasbourg-bashing? An evaluation of the debates on the legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights in the…
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Guest Post: Grand Chamber Judgment Bédat v Switzerland
At the end of last month, the Grand Chamber of the Court issued its judgment in the case of Bédat v. Switzerland on journalism and investigative secrecy in criminal cases. One of our regular guest bloggers, professor Dirk Voorhoof of Ghent University, has written a critical…