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Judgment on Voting Rights for the Mentally Disabled
Today the European Court of Human rights issued an important judgment in a case on voting rights for the mentally disabled: Alajos Kiss v. Hungary. The applicant in the case suffered from manic depression and had for that reason been placed under…
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Article on ECHR and Responsibility of Member States of International Organisations
Tobias Lock of University College London has published ‘Beyond Bosphorus: The European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law on the Responsibility of Member States of International Organisations Under the European Convention on Human Rights’ on SSRN, a forthcoming article in the Human…
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EU antitrust fines and ECHR fair trial rights
It is my pleasure to post a guest contribution by my good friend Felix Ronkes Agerbeek, an excellent expert in EU law with a keen interest in human rights issues. His contribution addresses the links between two often disconnected fields: the antitrust…
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Kononov Revisited: No Violation of ECHR
History may repeat itself, but may also reverse itself. Vasiliy Kononov, an admired war hero in communist times for going behind enemy lines in WW II and taking action against alleged Nazi collaborators, was – after the fall of communism in Latvia…
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Book on Peaceful Protest and ECHR
A new book which covers and analyses articles 10 and 11 ECHR in the context of peaceful protest has just been published. It was written by David Mead of the Norwich Law School at University of East Anglia and is entitled ‘The…
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Updates on Communicated Cases
A good way to keep track of cases is a special update service on the website of the Court. Each application that comes to the Court’s registry and is not deemed by the Court’s judges to be clearly inadmissible, will be further…
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Court Judgment Implementation in Romania and Moldova
Both Moldova and Romania need to step up their current efforts to ensure that the European Court’s judgments are fully implemented. That is the main conclusion of the of Christos Pourgourides, PACE rapporteur on the implementation of judgments of the European Court…
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Hate Speech Decision on Le Pen
It is my pleasure to feature another guest post on this blog by professor Dirk Voorhoof of Ghent University on last week’s Court decision in the case of Le Pen v. France (available only in French), the (in)famous French politician: Admissibility decision…
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(Lack of) Follow-up on Sejdic and Finci
In December last year the European Court of Human Rights ruled that some provisions of the Bosnian Constitution, as negotiated in the context of the Dayton Peace Agreement, violated the ECHR. Sejdic and Finci (shown on the photo) were prevented from running…
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Article on Principle of Effectiveness
The newest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 79, No. 2, 2010) contains an article by Daniel Rietiker, who works at the registry of the Court. It is entitled ‘The Principle of “Effectiveness” in the Recent Jurisprudence of the…
