Month: November 2010
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New issues IAEHR Journal and HRLR
Two human rights journals have just released their newest issues. Please find an overview here of the articles that relate to the ECHR. The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (vol. 10 , no. 4 , 2010) includes: * Thérèse Murphy and Gearóid…
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Interpretative Authority of ECtHR Judgments
A strong plea for the interpretative authority of Europea Court judgments. That is what PACE rapporteur Christos Pourgourides delivered last month at a conference in Skopje. He convincingly argued that one of the key ways to prevent repetitive applications to the Court and to prevent…
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Report on Implementing Regional Human Rights Decisions
The NGO Open Society Justice Initiative has just published a new report online, entitled ‘From Judgment to Justice. Implementing International and Regional Human Rights Decisions’. It focuses on challenges of implementation in respect of four human rights systems: the Strasbourg system, the Inter-American and African…
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Voting Rights for Detainees: Reform Ordered
A blanket ban on voting rights for detainees in the United Kingdom, in place since 1870, might change into a more nuanced system of assessing which prisoners get the right to vote. Yesterday, in the pilot judgment of Greens and M.T. v. the UK, the…
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Russian Constitutional Court President Very Critical of Strasbourg Court
The president of Russia’s Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, uttered very critical remarks at a forum in Saint Petersburg last Saturday. According to various press agencies (Itar Tass and Reuters) and newspapers (Kommersant) he indicated that Russia could withdraw from the jurisdiction of the European Court…
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PACE Report Points Out Biggest ECHR Implementation Culprits
Yesterday, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted its newest (7th) report on the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, drafted by Mr Christos Pourgourides. The report fits in with the increasingly…
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The Court’s New Priority Policy
The high tide of cases reaching Strasbourg is a well-known and worrying fact to Strasbourg watchers and others. One of the creative ways to deal with the current backlog of far over 100,000 cases is to prioritise applications instead of dealing with them in the…
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Protecting the Right of Individual Application
In recent years there have been various interferences with individuals trying to bring their case to the European Court of Human Rights. Applicants in detention have been barred from contacting a lawyer, pressure has been put on applicants, or proceedings have even been started on…
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ECHR and EU in UK and Ireland
Cian C. Murphy of King’s College in London has published a paper on SSRN entitled ‘Ireland & the UK in the European Union and European Convention on Human Rights: A Tale of Two Island Legal Systems?’. It is part of this book: The National Judicial…
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New Articles on ECHR
Two new articles on the European Convention on Human Rights have been published. First on the right to life in the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 21-3, 2010), Juliet Chevalier-Watts has written ‘Effective Investigations under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights:…