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Op-Ed on UK Human Rights Act and ECHR
This is an interesting op-ed by the chairman of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, as published in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper. It adds to the ongoing debate on a possible repeal of the British Human Rights Act. The author, Alan Miller, takes a…
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ECHR at Sea
A few weeks ago the Grand Chamber of the Court ruled in a case concerning the jurisdiction of state parties on the High Seas: Medvedyev v. France. The case concerned the seizure of a Cambodian ship by the French authorities in order…
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Annual Report on the Execution of Judgments
Wednesday, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe released the Annual Report on its supervision of the execution of the Court’s judgments by the state parties in 2009. It was another year of increasingly intense and burdened supervision, but since…
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More Articles on ECHR
Dear readers, the monthly overviews of new articles on human rights of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at which I am based, have yielded two more previously unmentioned journal articles on ECHR matters: * D. Spielmann, ‘Recent trends in the…
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The Convention on Facebook
In an apparent attempt to connect to younger generations of Europeans online, the Council of Europe has set up a Facebook page on the European Convention on Human Rights, accompanied by this text in marketing language: Let’s share about the European Convention…
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New blog on Human Rights in the UK
The human rights blogosphere is ever-expanding. Please take a look at a very professional and informative new blog on human rights in the United Kingdom: UK Human Rights Blog, which is made by 1 Crown Office row. The blog is devoted to…
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The Convention on Youtube
To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights, the Court has launched a short youtube animation on all the rights contained in the Convention. It is currently available in English and French and other languages are to follow…
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New ECHR Articles on SSRN
In the last few weeks a number of papers and articles relatign to the ECHR have been posten on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), which makes them freely available. Here are a few of the notable ones: * Anne Peters, ‘The…
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Blood Transfusion HIV Judgment
The European Court has ordered Turkey to pay lifetime medical coverage to a teenager infected with HIV. The case, Oyal v. Turkey, was decided last week. It concerned a boy born in 1996, who was given blood transfusions for medical reasons right…
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UK Parliamentary Report on Judgment Implementation
One of the bottlenecks in the whoel ECHR system is the rapid and effective implementation of the European Court’s judgments by domestic juridictions. Indeed this has been labelled by many as one of the main areas in which improvement is needed. In…
