In the last days before Christmas, the Court has been adding a number of new factsheets on the European Convention of Human Rights to its website. Ever since the first factsheets were published online in 2010, this very useful collection of summaries of judgments, decisions and pending cases, organised around specific themes, the collection has provided guidance to both practitioners and academics, to both students and to the press. All for the purpose of increasing the effectiveness of the Convention system by making the Court’s case-law more known and more widely available. Many of them are now available in range of languages. The five newest ones are:
* derogation in times of emergency
* extradition and life sentences
* sport
I wish all readers a very good holiday season and a wonderful 2016!
