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PhD Workshop on Legacy and Future of ECHR
The School of Law of University College Dublin is organising a workshop entitled ‘The Legacy and Future of the ECHR: Evaluating Sixty Years of the European Human Rights Project’ on 1-2 April 2011. Although it is primarily intended for PhD researchers, other…
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New issues IAEHR Journal and HRLR
Two human rights journals have just released their newest issues. Please find an overview here of the articles that relate to the ECHR. The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 10 , no. 4 , 2010) includes: * Thérèse…
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Interpretative Authority of ECtHR Judgments
A strong plea for the interpretative authority of Europea Court judgments. That is what PACE rapporteur Christos Pourgourides delivered last month at a conference in Skopje. He convincingly argued that one of the key ways to prevent repetitive applications to the Court…
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Report on Implementing Regional Human Rights Decisions
The NGO Open Society Justice Initiative has just published a new report online, entitled ‘From Judgment to Justice. Implementing International and Regional Human Rights Decisions’. It focuses on challenges of implementation in respect of four human rights systems: the Strasbourg system, the…
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Voting Rights for Detainees: Reform Ordered
A blanket ban on voting rights for detainees in the United Kingdom, in place since 1870, might change into a more nuanced system of assessing which prisoners get the right to vote. Yesterday, in the pilot judgment of Greens and M.T. v.…
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Russian Constitutional Court President Very Critical of Strasbourg Court
The president of Russia’s Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, uttered very critical remarks at a forum in Saint Petersburg last Saturday. According to various press agencies (Itar Tass and Reuters) and newspapers (Kommersant) he indicated that Russia could withdraw from the jurisdiction of…
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PACE Report Points Out Biggest ECHR Implementation Culprits
Yesterday, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted its newest (7th) report on the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, drafted by Mr Christos Pourgourides. The report fits in…
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The Court’s New Priority Policy
The high tide of cases reaching Strasbourg is a well-known and worrying fact to Strasbourg watchers and others. One of the creative ways to deal with the current backlog of far over 100,000 cases is to prioritise applications instead of dealing with…
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Protecting the Right of Individual Application
In recent years there have been various interferences with individuals trying to bring their case to the European Court of Human Rights. Applicants in detention have been barred from contacting a lawyer, pressure has been put on applicants, or proceedings have even…
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ECHR and EU in UK and Ireland
Cian C. Murphy of King’s College in London has published a paper on SSRN entitled ‘Ireland & the UK in the European Union and European Convention on Human Rights: A Tale of Two Island Legal Systems?’. It is part of this book:…
