Month: August 2009
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PACE Report on Political Abuse of Criminal Justice
As the Court is having its well-deserved summer break, I would like to point my readers’ attention to a new report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Rapporteur Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has written ‘Allegations of politically-motivated abuses of the criminal justice system in…
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ECHR Contributions in Irish Yearbook
The newest volume of the Irish Yearbook of International Law has been published, as the International Law Reporter reports. It contains two ECHR-related contributions: * William A Schabas & Aisling O’Sullivan, Of Politics and Poor Weather: How Ireland Decided to Sue the United Kingdom Under…
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Court’s Summer Break
The Court’s summer break has started in the sense that no new hearings will be held and no new judgments will be issued until the second week of September. This means that in the coming weeks blogging on here will be light, with only occasional…
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Switzerland will host future of ECHR Conference
Switzerland has agreed to host the high-level conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights. It will be held in the city of Interlaken on 18 and 19 February 2010 during Switzerland’s chairmanship of the Council of Europe. The main aim of…
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Parliamentary Assembly Lambasts Italy for Ignoring Court’s Interim Measures
The chair of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s Legal Affairs Committee, Herta Däubler-Gmelin, and the Assembly’s rapporteur on the implementation of ECtHR judgments, Christos Porgourides, have lambasted Italy for ignoring yet another interim measure of the Court. Last Sunday Italy sent back applicant Ali…
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Article in LJIL on Article 3 ECHR
The September (!) issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law has already been published and contains an article which takes a fresh look at the absolute character of Article 3 ECHR: ‘In Search of a Fair Balance: The Absolute Character of the Prohibition of…
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A New Advisory Opinion May Be Coming Up
At its meeting on 8-9 July the Committee of Ministers (in its composition of deputies) of the Council of Europe decided to ask the Court for clarity on the issue of candidates lists for possible new judges submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly. The requests directly…
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Travaux Préparatoires Available Online
For all those interested in the historical roots of the ECHR, but with no direct access to an academic library, I can recommend the site of the Court’s own library. The site contains a full page with links to the Travaux Préparatoires of the Convention,…
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Article on Rape, Torture and ECHR in ICLQ
Clare McGlynn of Durhan Law School has published ‘Rape, Torture and the European Convention on Human Rights’ in the newest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 58-3). This is the abstract: This article examines the legacy of the ground-breaking judgment in Aydin…