Month: January 2017
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The Court in 2016: Overview
At his annual press conference today, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Guido Raimondi, presented an overview of the Court’s work over the past year. The most important issues: in 2016, for the first time after a two-year decrease, the number of
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New Judges in respect of the Netherlands and Hungary
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the European Court of Human Rights. For the Netherlands, judge Jolien Schukking was elected. Judge Schukking was preferred over two other similarly very well-qualified Dutch ECHR experts, professors Rick Lawson and
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Guest Post on Grand Chamber Judgment in Hutchinson
As the first post of the new year on the ECHR Blog, it is my pleasure to introduce a guest post by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou of the University of Liverpool on this week’s Grand Chamber judgment on life sentences without parole in the case of Hutchinson