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Paper on National Judicial Treatment of the ECHR
Giuseppe Martinico, of the Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales in Madrid and the European University Institute in Florence, has posted a paper on the differences and similarities between EU and ECHR law in national legal orders. It is entitled ‘The National…
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Important Housing Rights Judgment
What to do when one buys a house or an apartment in good faith, but it later on expires that the original owner had acquired it by fraud? To what extent should the interests of the new bona fide owner then be…
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Immunity of Judges in Practice
The question of the immunity of judges arose in Strasbourg in the past two months in the context of a search of the Romanian house of judge Corneliu Bîrsan, one of the Court’s longest-serving judges (since 1998). The direct reason was that…
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Admissibility Checklist
Today, the Court launched yet another tool to make sure no clearly inadmissible applications are lodged in Strasbourg: an admissibility checklist. Whereas previous efforts were focused to a large extent on lawyers, this new initiative is aimed at the applicants themselves. In…
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More New ECHR Academic Publications
And yet another batch of academic works about the European Convention on Human Rights – it would take many metres of bookshelves a year to stack them all!. Thankfully, an increasing part of it is available online: * Alexandra Timmer, ‘Toward an…
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New Version of CoE Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals Website
Yesterday, a revamped and improved version of the Council of Europe’s HELP site, short for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals, was put online. The HELP programme is an often overlooked but essential nexus between the Strasbourg system and national legal practitioners.…
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New Publications on ECHR and Good News
The end of this month brings a broad range of new ECHR-related publications, both books and articles. Please find an overview here: * Nicolas Bratza (current president of the Court) has published an article entitled ‘The relationship between the UK Courts and…
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Article on EU Accession to the ECHR
Profesor Martin Kuijer of the Free University of Amsterdam, who is also the senior adviser on human rights to the Minister of Security and Justice in the Netherlands, has published an article on EU accession to the ECHR in the latest issue…
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Three New PACE Reports on the ECHR and the Court
Last week, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe adopted three reports on the ECHR and on the European Court of Human Rights. Two of them were presented by rapporteur Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, her last as member…
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Guest Post on British ECHR Reform Plans
I am very happy to welcome another guest post of Ed Bates of the University of Southampton. This time it relates to the reform plans for the Court of the current British chairmanship of the Council of Europe: British plans for reform…
