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Extraordinary Rendition, Forced Labour, and Evidence Obtained by Torture
There are three cases, among the many decided by the Court in the past few weeks, which I would like to highlight. They deal with testimony potentially obtained through torture, forced labour and extraordinary rendition respectively. The first is the case of El…
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New Issue HRLR
The newest issue of the Human Rights Law Review has been published (vol. 12, no. 3, 2012) and includes a number of articles concerning the European Convention and the European Court: Mathias Möschel, ‘Is the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law…
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Court Condemns Homophobic Treatment in Prisons
For the first time in its existence, the European Court of Human Rights found that a complaint related to sexual orientation discrimination yielded a violation of Article 3 ECHR. The judgment of X. v. Turkey (available only in French), delivered last week, concerns…
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New Academic Articles on Al-Jedda, Al-Skeini, and EU Accession to ECHR
The most recent issue of the Military Law and the Law of War Review (Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre, vol. 50, nos. 3-4 of 2011) has been published. It includes an ‘agora’ / special thematic part on the…
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HUDOC Tutorial Video
Undoubtedly one of the most-used human rights case-law search engines in the world is the European Court of Human Rights’ own HUDOC database with all its case-law. Earlier this year, the user interface of the database was relaunched with a different look…
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New Judges Elected in Respect of Bosnia, Croatia, Moldova, and Russia
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected judges to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of four countries. The new Bosnian judge will be Mr Faris Vehabovic, judge and vice-president of the Bosnian Constitutional Court and ad…
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New ECHR Academic Articles
The newest issue of SIM’s ‘current contents’ (September 2012) on human rights has been published. As always, it also includes a number of ECHR-related references. These include: K. Dzehtsiarou and V. Lukashevich, ‘Informed decision-making: the comparative endeavours of the Strasbourg Court’, Netherlands Quarterly of…
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ECHR Articles in Newest Issue EuConst
The newest edition of the European Constitutional Law Review (vol. 8, issue 2, 2012) includes two ECHR-related articles. The first was written by my Dutch colleague and ECHR expert professor Janneke Gerards (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) and is entitled ‘The Prism of Fundamental Rights’…
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New Factsheets on Jurisprudence
Three new factsheets with overviews of key case-law concerning various issues which have featured in the Court’s docket have been put online recently. These are: The right to life Companies (with the slightly corny subtitle: companies – victims or culprits) Taxation
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Nada Grand Chamber Judgment
Earlier this month, the Grand Chamber of the Court issued delivered its judgment in the case of Nada v. Switzerland. A long-awaited judgment, since it deals with the implementation of a UN Security Council resolution by one the state parties to the…
