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Brighton
As negotiations and preparations are ongoing for the meeting of Ministers later this week on ECHR reform in Brighton, here are a few updates: * A new joint NGO Statement on Brighton * An academic initiative of the University of Sussex calling…
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Brighton Conference Programme Online
The programme for next week’s Brighton conference on the European Court of Human Rights has been put online by the British chairmanship of the Council of Europe. It can be found here. Unfortunately, it says nothing much, certainly not about what precise…
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Inter-State Case Georgia v Russia goes to Grand Chamber
Last week, the Chamber which had been assigned to adjudicate on the Georgia v Russia (No. 2) inter-state complaint – about the war of 2008 – relinquished jurisdiction in favour of the Grand Chamber of the European Court. Earlier, in December 2011…
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Brighton Update – New Version of the Draft Declaration
A lot has been written on the preparations for the Brighton conference on the ECHR. The newest version of the Draft Brighton Declaration was discussed yesterday in Strasbourg. I have not been able to track an online version of this newest draft,…
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ECHR Articles
Thanks to our documentalists here at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) I found a range of ECHR articles which I think I had not mentioned earlier. One is a special issue of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (2010, vol. 61,…
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Committee of Ministers Adopts Guidelines on Selecting European Court Judges
Yesterday, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Guidelines on the selection of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights. The guidelines address the first step in electing judges: the national selection procedures.…
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Paper on Reparations in Torture Cases in Strasbourg
Professor Bill Bowring of Birbeck College of the University of London has posted a working paper on SSRN on Strasbourg’s practice of reparations in torture cases. It is entitled ‘What Reparation Does a Torture Survivor Obtain from International Litigation? Critical Reflections on…
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Part of FIDE 2012 Dedicated to EU – ECHR Relationship
From May 30 to June 2, 2012 Tallinn will be the host city of the Congress of the International Federation of European Law (FIDE). This will be the 25th time that the biennial FIDE Congress is serving as a common forum for…
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Dutch Supreme Court President’s Views on the European Court
Earlier this month, the President of the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad), Geert Corstens, and one of his staff, Reindert Kuiper, published their views on the problems the European Court is facing in a short article in the Dutch review of jurists…
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Guest Post on Austin and Others Grand Chamber Judgment on ‘Kettling’
Last week was a week full of important judgments from the European Court. One of the main Grand Chamber judgments concerned a demonstrator and some passers-by who were held in a police cordon for several hours during a protest against globalisation in…
