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ECtHR Judgment: States not Obliged to Allow Homosexual Marriages
In a key judgment issued today, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on a complaint of a homosexual couple in Austria who were denied the right to marry. Although very recently (January 2010) Austria created the possibility to enter into a…
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New ECHR Academic Articles
Three new ECHR-related articles have recently been published. The first is authored by Nadezhda Purtova and has just been published in our own Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2010, pp. 179-198). It is entitled ‘Private Law Solutions in…
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New German and Maltese Judges Elected
Yesterday the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected two new judges to the Court. With respect to Germany, the new judge will be Angelika Nussberger, currently law professor at the University of Cologne. The new Maltese judge will be Vincent…
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Rendition Case to be Heard in Strasbourg
The case of the former terrorism suspect Khaled El-Masri is due to be considered in Strasbourg by the European Court of Human Rights, according to the Open Society Institute who is supporting his case. El-Masri was arrested by Macedonia in 2003, held…
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Procedure for Electing Judges at the Court
The secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly has issued a document on the ‘Procedure for Electing Judges to the European Court of Human Rights’. It is a handy summary of all the rules and…
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Judgment on Non-Religious Education in Poland
Human rights in classrooms – it seems to be a topic of increasing popularity (or concern) in Strasbourg these days. Yesterday, the Court issued its judgment in the case of Grzelak v. Poland. The case concerned a Polish boy who refused to…
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Article on Right to Individual Petition
Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen of the University of Aarhus has just posted ‘The Evolution of the Right of Individuals to Seise the European Court of Human Rights’ (forthcoming in the Journal of the History of International Law) on SSRN. This is the abstract: In…
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Paper on Effective Application of ECHR and EC Law in Cyprus
Nikolas Kyriakou of the European University Institute in Florence has just posted on SSRN an article on the national implementation of European norms. The paper is entitled ‘National Judges and Supranational Laws on the Effective Application of the EC Law and the…
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Court Information Note on Pilot Judgments
It may have been online for some time already, but I only just saw it and would like to bring it to your attention: the Court’s registry has drafted a short information note on the pilot judgment procedure. For more information on…
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Religious Oath in Court Proceedings Judgment
In Greece, witnesses and suspects in criminal proceedings are required to indicate epxlicitly if they do not want to take an oath on the Bible. This way they are forced to reveal their religious( or non-religouis) convictions. Four different people complained about…
