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Caught in a Minefield
Yesterday, the Court issued its judgment in the Albekov and others v. Russia case which may not only have been a landmark, but also a landmine judgment. Three family members of the applicants, all civilians, had been killed by landmines in a…
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Conference on ECHR
The University of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Centre is organising a conference for academics and legal practitioners on topical issues concerning the ECHR. This is the announcement: The Conference will be held on Friday 14 November 2008, 9am-5pm, in the Great Hall,…
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Hearing in Domestic Violence Case
Today the Court held a hearing in a case concerning domestic violence. The applicant, Nahide Opuz, has lodged a complaint against Turkey. The case centres on Opuz’ extremely violent husband who gravely ill-treated her and her mother many times and eventually killed…
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The Pilot has Landed
This week the Court concluded its first full cycle in a so-called pilot case procedure. It struck out 176 pending applications in the “Bug River” cases. These cases all concerned claims of applicants who disagreed with a Polish scheme set up to…
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Article on Rights of ‘Travelling Peoples’
The most recent issue of the Human Rights Law Review (volume 8, no. 3, 2008) contains an article on one of my areas of particular interest: Ralph Sandland, Developing a Jurisprudence of Difference: The Protection of the Human Rights of Travelling Peoples…
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Judgment on Apology of Terrorism
Cartoons are, as we have seen in recent years, not always completely innocuous. Today the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in a case focusing on the controversy about a cartoon depicting the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center…
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Interpretation of International Humanitarian Law
Still catching up on recent Court judgments, allow me to highlight a recent Grand Chamber decision of the Court. In Korbely v. Hungary the Court found a violation of Article 7 ECHR (no punishment without law) by eleven votes to six. The…
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Election of Judges
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, re-elected the Luxemburg judge at the Court, Dean Spielmann, for a new term. He was elected out of a list of three candidates by 86 out of 126 votes cast. His new term…
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The Perils of an Interview
Being interviewed in a newspaper can have serious consequences. Such was the experience of Nadji Chalabi in whose case the Court recently issued its judgment. Chalabi was a former member of the Board of Directors of the Grand Mosque of the French…
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10,000th Court Judgment
This month the European Court of Human Rights reached a remarkable milestone. On 18 September it delivered its 10,000th judgment, both a testimony to the Court’s very high efficiency as well as a sad reminder of the enormous case load – and…
