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New Book on Fair Balance
Jonas Christoffersen, director of the Danish Institute of Human Rights, has just published a reworked version of his Ph.D. thesis as a book: Fair Balance: Proportionality, Subsidiarity and Primarity in the European Convention on Human Rights with Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. An important…
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New Academic Articles on ECHR
The newest issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (No. 4 of 2009) contains an article by Lord Anthony Lester entitled ‘The European Court of Human Rights after 50 Years’. In addition, the newest two issues of the Revue Trimestrielle des…
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Implementation of Judgments Worsening
The implementation of the Court’s judgments on the national level is not getting better, to say the least. In fact, 36 of the 47 state parties to the European Convention are now failing to timely implement the Court’s judgments. Those are the…
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PACE Report on Political Abuse of Criminal Justice
As the Court is having its well-deserved summer break, I would like to point my readers’ attention to a new report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Rapporteur Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has written ‘Allegations of politically-motivated abuses of the criminal…
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ECHR Contributions in Irish Yearbook
The newest volume of the Irish Yearbook of International Law has been published, as the International Law Reporter reports. It contains two ECHR-related contributions: * William A Schabas & Aisling O’Sullivan, Of Politics and Poor Weather: How Ireland Decided to Sue the…
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Court’s Summer Break
The Court’s summer break has started in the sense that no new hearings will be held and no new judgments will be issued until the second week of September. This means that in the coming weeks blogging on here will be light,…
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Switzerland will host future of ECHR Conference
Switzerland has agreed to host the high-level conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights. It will be held in the city of Interlaken on 18 and 19 February 2010 during Switzerland’s chairmanship of the Council of Europe. The…
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Parliamentary Assembly Lambasts Italy for Ignoring Court’s Interim Measures
The chair of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s Legal Affairs Committee, Herta Däubler-Gmelin, and the Assembly’s rapporteur on the implementation of ECtHR judgments, Christos Porgourides, have lambasted Italy for ignoring yet another interim measure of the Court. Last Sunday Italy sent…
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Article in LJIL on Article 3 ECHR
The September (!) issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law has already been published and contains an article which takes a fresh look at the absolute character of Article 3 ECHR: ‘In Search of a Fair Balance: The Absolute Character of…
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A New Advisory Opinion May Be Coming Up
At its meeting on 8-9 July the Committee of Ministers (in its composition of deputies) of the Council of Europe decided to ask the Court for clarity on the issue of candidates lists for possible new judges submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly.…
