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Annual Report of Court and Opening of Judicial Year
Last week, the Court issued its Annual Report over 2010. It shows a continuing of the worrying trend of increasses: 140,000 pending cases at the end of 2010, a rise of 7% in allocated applications and a rise of 65% (!) in…
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Common Statement CJEU and ECtHR
Last week, the two main regional European Courts, the Court of Justice of the European Union, in Luxembourg, and the European Court of Human Rights, in Strasbourg, issued a joint communication which gives in insight in the contours of some of the…
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Book on European Court in Facts and Figures
The Council of Europe has just published a new book on ‘The European Court of Human Rights – Facts and Figures’. The book, available in both English and French, forms a kind of snapshot overview of the Court’s work, including all kinds…
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Conscience of Europe Book Launched
This week the book ‘The Conscience of Europe. 50 Years of the European Court of Human Rights’ is launched in Strasbourg. This is not so much a book directed at academics or lawyers – though certainly also of interest to them –…
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New Portuguese Judge at the Court
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected a new judge for the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Portugal: Mr Paulo Sérgio Pinto de Albuquerque. His term of office will start after 5 Febuary 2011 and…
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The Life of an Application
To be found on the website of the European Court of Human Rights: a clear and handy flowchart of the ‘life of an application’, from the moment a dispute begins at the national level, all the way through proceedings at the Court…
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Dublin II Grand Chamber Judgment – Expulsion within EU
Today, the Grand Chamber issued a key judgment on expulsion of an Afghan national from Belgium to Greece and found violations of human rights by both countries in the case of M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece. The judgment is bound to affect…
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States Not Obliged to Assist Persons Wishing to Commit Suicide
Today, the Court decided in the case of Haas v. Switzerland (judgment in French only) that the right to private life is not violated when a state refuses to help a person who wishes to commit suicide by enabling that person to…
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Article on Court After Interlaken
In the wake of last year’s Interlaken reform summit, discussions have started again about the core functions of the European Court of Human Rights. A recent working paper by Fiona de Londras of University College Dublin, later to be published in the…
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New Book on History of European Court of Human Rights
Before I specialised in human rights law, I studied history. I was therefore especially happy to see the recent publication of the book ‘The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights. From Its Inception to the Creation of a Permanent Court…
