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Russian Constitutional Court President Very Critical of Strasbourg Court
The president of Russia’s Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, uttered very critical remarks at a forum in Saint Petersburg last Saturday. According to various press agencies (Itar Tass and Reuters) and newspapers (Kommersant) he indicated that Russia could withdraw from the jurisdiction of…
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PACE Report Points Out Biggest ECHR Implementation Culprits
Yesterday, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted its newest (7th) report on the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, drafted by Mr Christos Pourgourides. The report fits in…
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The Court’s New Priority Policy
The high tide of cases reaching Strasbourg is a well-known and worrying fact to Strasbourg watchers and others. One of the creative ways to deal with the current backlog of far over 100,000 cases is to prioritise applications instead of dealing with…
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Protecting the Right of Individual Application
In recent years there have been various interferences with individuals trying to bring their case to the European Court of Human Rights. Applicants in detention have been barred from contacting a lawyer, pressure has been put on applicants, or proceedings have even…
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ECHR and EU in UK and Ireland
Cian C. Murphy of King’s College in London has published a paper on SSRN entitled ‘Ireland & the UK in the European Union and European Convention on Human Rights: A Tale of Two Island Legal Systems?’. It is part of this book:…
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New Articles on ECHR
Two new articles on the European Convention on Human Rights have been published. First on the right to life in the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 21-3, 2010), Juliet Chevalier-Watts has written ‘Effective Investigations under Article 2 of the European Convention…
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Court Reform in a Fairy Tale
At the occasion of the retirement from the European Court of Human Rights of the German judge Renate Jaeger, a small and original analysis of the Court’s current problems and predicaments has been written by Egbert Myjer and Peter Kempees, in the…
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Two New Articles on ECHR
In the week in which the European Convention on Human Rights will turn 60, two recent articles address two very different aspects. The first goes into the fundamental question to what extent the Court can be said to be democratically legitimate. It…
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Scottish Practice Contrary to Salduz Requirements
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has recently issued its decision in the case of Cadder v. H.M. Advocate. It concerns the compatibility of Scottish law with the Salduz v. Turkey judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court (see…
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Winter School on ECHR and Migrants
The University of Bologna – the oldest in Europe – is organising a ‘Winter School’ on ‘The European Convention of Human Rights: mechanism of protection and rights of migrants’ from 10 to 14 January 2011. According to the organisers, the course aims…
