• Updates on Communicated Cases

    Updates on Communicated Cases

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    A good way to keep track of cases is a special update service on the website of the Court. Each application that comes to the Court’s registry and is not deemed by the Court’s judges to be clearly inadmissible, will be further…

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  • Court Judgment Implementation in Romania and Moldova

    Court Judgment Implementation in Romania and Moldova

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    Both Moldova and Romania need to step up their current efforts to ensure that the European Court’s judgments are fully implemented. That is the main conclusion of the of Christos Pourgourides, PACE rapporteur on the implementation of judgments of the European Court…

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  • Hate Speech Decision on Le Pen

    Hate Speech Decision on Le Pen

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    It is my pleasure to feature another guest post on this blog by professor Dirk Voorhoof of Ghent University on last week’s Court decision in the case of Le Pen v. France (available only in French), the (in)famous French politician: Admissibility decision…

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  • (Lack of) Follow-up on Sejdic and Finci

    (Lack of) Follow-up on Sejdic and Finci

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    In December last year the European Court of Human Rights ruled that some provisions of the Bosnian Constitution, as negotiated in the context of the Dayton Peace Agreement, violated the ECHR. Sejdic and Finci (shown on the photo) were prevented from running…

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  • Article on Principle of Effectiveness

    Article on Principle of Effectiveness

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    The newest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 79, No. 2, 2010) contains an article by Daniel Rietiker, who works at the registry of the Court. It is entitled ‘The Principle of “Effectiveness” in the Recent Jurisprudence of the…

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  • Gender Justice Perspective on ECHR Case-Law

    Gender Justice Perspective on ECHR Case-Law

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    I would like to bring the Gender Justice Observatory to your attention. This website is, in its own words an “interactive database of important decisions from national, regional and international courts and tribunals and of strategies to work with courts and tribunals…

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  • PACE Rapporteur on Interlaken

    PACE Rapporteur on Interlaken

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    The rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly, Mrs Marie-Louise Bemelmans Videc, has drafted a report which is the basis of the Assembly’s reaction to the Interlaken Conference. The Assembly’s resolution (no. 1726) was adopted…

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  • Article on Right to Life Jurisprudence

    Article on Right to Life Jurisprudence

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    The newest issue (Vol 14, Issue 2, 2010) of the International Journal of Human Rights contains an article by Juliet Chevalier-Watts (University of Waikato, New Zealand), entitled ‘A rock and a hard place: has the European Court of Human Rights permitted discrepancies…

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  • New Ukrainian Judge Elected

    New Ukrainian Judge Elected

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    Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Mrs Ganna Yudkivska as judge with respect to Ukraine. She knows the Strasbourg system from the inside, as she has experience as a lawyer within the Court’s registry for five years and…

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  • New blog with case-law comments

    New blog with case-law comments

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    The ever expanding human rights tree of bloggers has a new offshoot: a blog set up my a group of academics from Ghent University in Belgium, under the supervision of professor Eva Brems, with comments on Strasbourg case-law. This new blog features…

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