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Court’s Second Advisory Opinion
The Court has just issued its second Advisory Opinion ever, entitled ‘On certain legal questions concerning the lists of candidates submitted with a view to the election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights’. The questions at issue arose from…
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Upcoming Second Advisory Opinion of the Court
This Friday the Court will issue its second Advisory Opinion ever. It was requested by the Committee of Ministers (to be precise, their deputies) last year and concerns the following question: “whether a list of candidates for election as a judge in…
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Russian Duma Has Accepted Protocol 14 Today
The Russian Duma has ratified Protocol 14 today (a majority of 392 votes out of 450). The other branch of the legislative, the Federation Council, now has to accept it still. Following protracted negotiations it will now be guaranteed for Russia that…
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Four Freedoms Award 2010 Granted to European Court
It has just been made public that the International Four Freedoms Award 2010 will be granted to the European Court of Human Rights. This annual award was created to honour the Four Freedoms, as first declared by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on…
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Article on ECHR and Refugees
I have not reported it earlier, but a few months ago Karl C. Procaccini published the article ‘Constructing the Right “Not to Be Made a Refugee” at the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights’ in the online Harvard Human Rights Journal.…
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UK’s Stop and Search Violates ECHR
Just a very short notification to report that the Court decided today that the United Kingdom’s stop and search powers for the police are too wide and that no adequate safeguards against abuse exist. The Terrorism Act 2000 permits any uniformed police…
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Landmark Judgment on Human Trafficking
Yesterday, the European Court passed a landmark judgment on human trafficking in the case of Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia. The case concerned the death of Oxana Rantseva and was brought by her father. Oxana moved from Russia to Cyprus and started…
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Part of Bosnian Constitution Contravenes ECHR
Just before Christmas the European Court of Human Rights issued a very important Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two men complained of their ineligibility to stand for election to the House of…
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Happy New Year and Guest Post
Dear readers, first of all a very happy and good new year to all of you! The past year has seen this blog grow to over 70,000 pageviews in 2009 and I hope to continue the work in 2010. As a kick…
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Last Post of the Year: Fox Hunt, Protocol 14, and More
Dear readers, at the end of this year a final post with a miscellany of issues. First, the Court’s site offers a range of new features to make its case law more easily accessible. An important innovation is the translation of key…
