Full Professor of Human Rights in a Multidisciplinary Perspective at Utrecht University.
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Access to Medical Information
Access to information seems to be one of the themes of the month in Strasbourg. After a judgment against Hungary earlier in April, the Court yesterday issued its judgment in the case of K.H. and others v. Slovakia (24 April, Appl.No. 32881/04).…
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As Bad As It Gets
The opening article of the newest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly deals with the – by now -notorious and much-discussed Behrami and Saramati admissibility decision of the Court. The article, authored by Marko Milanovic and Tatjana Papic, is entitled…
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Website for the Court’s 50th Anniversary
The Court is slowly increasing the visibility of its 50th anniversary on its own website. This week a special part of the website has been specifically dedicated to it, in a user-friendly format. It is a work in progress with updates throughout…
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Access to Information Judgment
Last week, the European Court issued its judgment in the case of Társaság a Szabadságjogokért (the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union) v. Hungary. In the case the Court did not recognise a general right to access to information, but did indicate that in…
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New Book on Court’s Case Load Burden
As most of the readers of this blog will be very aware, the Court has been and is still struggling with its huge and growing case load of applications. In the chorus of possible solutions a new voice has been added. Ulrike…
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Report on ECHR Fact-Finding Missions
Philip Leach (the famous ECHR practioner), Costas Paraskeva, and Gordana Uzelac have undertaken extensive research on ‘International Human Rights and Fact-finding. An analysis of the fact-finding missions conducted by the European Commission and Court of Human Rights’, published online by London Metropolitan…
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Nuisance From Outside the Prison
Strasbourg watchers may have become used to the swarm of cases concerning prison conditions. But even for them, a judgment issued yesterday by the Court may contain a novelty. In Branduse v. Romania, the Court found that the state had not only…
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British Law Lord Heavily Criticizes European Court
The British Law Lord Hoffmann has heavily criticised the European Court of Human Rights, as the BBC reported last Saturday in a news release. In a lecture held at the Judicial Studies Board on March 19, Lord Hoffmann argued the following about…
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Protection of Journalists’ Sources
Yesterday, the Court issued its judgment in the case of Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. the Netherlands. The case deals with the protection of journalistic sources. I am very grateful that today the blog hosts a special guest blog analysis of the case…
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Amnesty and Torture
Should an amnesty for acts of torture be recognised by other states? Such was implicitly one of the underlying questions in a case decided on by the Court today. In Ould Dah v. France, the applicant – a Mauritanian army officer –…