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Access to Information Judgment
Last week, the European Court issued its judgment in the case of Társaság a Szabadságjogokért (the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union) v. Hungary. In the case the Court did not recognise a general right to access to information, but did indicate that in…
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New Book on Court’s Case Load Burden
As most of the readers of this blog will be very aware, the Court has been and is still struggling with its huge and growing case load of applications. In the chorus of possible solutions a new voice has been added. Ulrike…
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Report on ECHR Fact-Finding Missions
Philip Leach (the famous ECHR practioner), Costas Paraskeva, and Gordana Uzelac have undertaken extensive research on ‘International Human Rights and Fact-finding. An analysis of the fact-finding missions conducted by the European Commission and Court of Human Rights’, published online by London Metropolitan…
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Nuisance From Outside the Prison
Strasbourg watchers may have become used to the swarm of cases concerning prison conditions. But even for them, a judgment issued yesterday by the Court may contain a novelty. In Branduse v. Romania, the Court found that the state had not only…
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British Law Lord Heavily Criticizes European Court
The British Law Lord Hoffmann has heavily criticised the European Court of Human Rights, as the BBC reported last Saturday in a news release. In a lecture held at the Judicial Studies Board on March 19, Lord Hoffmann argued the following about…
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Protection of Journalists’ Sources
Yesterday, the Court issued its judgment in the case of Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. the Netherlands. The case deals with the protection of journalistic sources. I am very grateful that today the blog hosts a special guest blog analysis of the case…
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Amnesty and Torture
Should an amnesty for acts of torture be recognised by other states? Such was implicitly one of the underlying questions in a case decided on by the Court today. In Ould Dah v. France, the applicant – a Mauritanian army officer –…
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New Edition of a Classic ECHR Handbook
The eagerly awaited second edition of one of the classic books on ECHR law has been published this month: Harris, O’Boyle & Warbrick: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights. The book, published by Oxford University Press, has been revised in…
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Article on Behrami and Saramati
Heike Krieger has published an article entitled ‘A Credibility Gap: The Behrami and Saramati Decision of the European Court of Human Rights’ which deals with one of the most debated decisions of the Court in the last few years. The decision of…
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Article 6 Grand Chamber Judgment
Ms Anthi Gorou must no doubt be one of the most active and successful complainants in Strasbourg. Today, the Grand Chamber of Court issued its judgment in Gorou v. Greece (No. 2), reaching the same outcome as a Chamber of the Court…
