• New Judges Elected in Respect of Bosnia, Croatia, Moldova, and Russia

    New Judges Elected in Respect of Bosnia, Croatia, Moldova, and Russia

    Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected judges to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of four countries. The new Bosnian judge will be Mr Faris Vehabovic, judge and vice-president of the Bosnian Constitutional Court and ad…

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  • New ECHR Academic Articles

    New ECHR Academic Articles

    The newest issue of SIM’s ‘current contents’ (September 2012) on human rights has been published. As always, it also includes a number of ECHR-related references. These include: K. Dzehtsiarou and V. Lukashevich, ‘Informed decision-making: the comparative endeavours of the Strasbourg Court’, Netherlands Quarterly of…

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  • ECHR Articles in Newest Issue EuConst

    ECHR Articles in Newest Issue EuConst

    The newest edition of the European Constitutional Law Review (vol. 8, issue 2, 2012) includes two ECHR-related articles. The first was written by my Dutch colleague and ECHR expert professor Janneke Gerards (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) and is entitled ‘The Prism of Fundamental Rights’…

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  • New Factsheets on Jurisprudence

    New Factsheets on Jurisprudence

    Three new factsheets with overviews of key case-law concerning various issues which have featured in the Court’s docket have been put online recently. These are: The right to life Companies (with the slightly corny subtitle: companies – victims or culprits) Taxation

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  • Nada Grand Chamber Judgment

    Nada Grand Chamber Judgment

    Earlier this month, the Grand Chamber of the Court issued delivered its judgment in the case of Nada v. Switzerland. A long-awaited judgment, since it deals with the implementation of a UN Security Council resolution by one the state parties to the…

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  • Speech of Bratza and Candidates for New Judges

    Speech of Bratza and Candidates for New Judges

    Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Moldova, and the Russian Federation have all submitted lists of three candidates (some of them new ones after earlier lists had been sent back or candidates withdrew) to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. One may…

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  • Drafting Groups on Court Reform – Draft Protocol 15

    Drafting Groups on Court Reform – Draft Protocol 15

    In the context of the ongoing reforms at the European Court of Human Rights and potential changes (in the form of additional protocols) to the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Human Rights (known under its…

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  • New Court Research Reports

    New Court Research Reports

    Last year, the Court started to publish research reports online about particular themes in its case-law (see here for an earlier notification and overview). In the past months, three new research reports have been put online. The reports relate to the following…

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  • Miscellaneous

    Miscellaneous

    Today, a few short notifications a various kinds: Last week, the Court issued an admissibility decision which sheds some additional light on the Salduz jurispudence (on the right to have access to legal assistance for suspects when being interviewed by the police).…

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  • ELI Research Paper on Court’s Case-(Over)Load

    ELI Research Paper on Court’s Case-(Over)Load

    The European Law Institute (ELI) in Vienna has published a research paper on the case overload of the European Court of Human Rights. The paper was written by the Court’s former registrar and future judge Paul Mahoney together with Luzius Wildhaber, Jean-Paul…

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