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20 unusual facts about European Court of Human Rights


1978 in Northern Ireland

18 January - The European Court of Human Rights finds Britain guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of republican internees in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.

Andrine Sæther

They lost the lawsuit, but Sæther and Lillo-Stenberg have declared their intentions to pursue the case in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Crucifix

On 18 March 2011, the European Court of Human Rights ruled, in the Lautsi v. Italy case, that the requirement in Italian law that crucifixes be displayed in classrooms of state schools does not violate the European Convention on Human Rights.

Dervo Sejdić

have launched an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights on the basis that Bosnia's Constitution violates the European Convention on Human Rights.

Dietrich v The Queen

This is the approach used in the United Kingdom, in relation to decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, for example.

European Court

the European Court of Human Rights, an institution based in Strasbourg for the hearing of human rights complaints from Council of Europe member states; unrelated to European Union

Human rights in Turkey

In January 2006, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey had violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights that prohibits degrading treatment in a case relating to Osman Murat Ulke, the first conscientious objector to be imprisoned for his objection.

:*The European Convention on Human Rights (1954) places Turkey under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Information privacy law

The European Court of Human Rights has given this article a very broad interpretation in its jurisprudence.

International human rights instruments

Examples of the first case include the UN treaty committees, while the best exemplar of the second case is the European Court of Human Rights.

Jakob Finci

He and Dervo Sejdić, a prominent Bosnian Roma and member of the member of Bosnia's Roma Council, have launched an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights on the basis that Bosnia's Constitution violates the European Convention on Human Rights.

Javier Martínez-Torrón

He is internationally recognized as an expert in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, especially on issues related to freedom of religion and belief.

Jean-Paul Costa

On 1 January, he was appointed the judge in respect of France at the newly-permanent European Court of Human Rights On 1 May 2000, he rose to become a Section President and on 1 November 2001 Vice-President of the Court.

Kemalism

whereas the European Court of Human Rights ruled in numerous cases that such restrictions in public buildings and educational institutions do not constitute a violation of human rights.

Liebeskonzil

In 1994, in the case of Otto-Preminger-Institut v. Austria, the European Court of Human Rights held by 6 votes to 3 that the banning of the film was a justifiable limitation on the freedom of expression, because the film would offend Austrian Roman Catholics.

Ľubomír Feldek

Although the senate of appeal of the Supreme Court abolished the financial penalty, Feldek's defendant Ernest Valko brought the case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

MS Jan Heweliusz

In 2005, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg ruled that the official investigation of the sinking was not impartial and granted 4600 euros in damages each to eleven relatives of the victims.

Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet

Sir William and others involved challenged the amount of compensation they were offered and ended up taking their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Virtue Party

Former Party chairman Mehmet Recai Kutan submitted a case on behalf of the party to the European Court of Human Rights, alleging infringement of Articles 10 (freedom of expression) and 11 (freedom of association) among others.

Yeşilyurt Feces Case

Since villagers didn't get results from the legal process in Turkey, they applied to the European Court of Human Rights.


Alexander Ivanovich Baranov

In July 2006 the European Court of Human Rights found the government of Russia guilty of the failure to protect from ill-treatment and a violation of the "right to life" of an alleged Chechen rebel fighter, Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev.

Anatoly Kovler

Anatoly Kovler (born 26 August 1948) is a Tajikistani-born Russian lawyer, former Professor at the Academic Law University of the Russian Academy of Sciences and currently the Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Russia.

Ann Power

In September 2007, Power was nominated under Article 22 ECHR along with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Roger Sweetman to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to be considered for appointment as the judge in respect of Ireland at the European Court of Human Rights.

Gerald Fitzmaurice

He was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration between 1964 and 1973 and a Senior Judge of the International Court of Justice between 1967 and 1973, before becoming a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg in 1974.

Giovanni Bonello

Giovanni Bonello (born 11 June 1936 in Floriana) was a former European Court of Human Rights judge.

Inter-allied tribunal attempt

According to European Court of Human Rights judge Giovanni Bonello the suspension of prosecutions, the repatriation and release of Turkish detainees was amongst others a result of the lack of an appropriate legal framework with supranational jurisdiction, because following World War I no international norms for regulating war crimes existed.

James A. Sharkey

As Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, he chaired the Human Rights Committee and defended the leading role of the European Court of Human Rights.

Magyar Gárda

Following the judgment, the Guard's representatives said they would apply for a review by the Supreme Court and ultimately challenge the judgment before the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg and claimed that the Hungarian courts were bowing to political pressure.

Nermin Purić

In October 2011, Purić was appointed to a legislative committee mandated to facilitate implementation of the European Court of Human Rights decision in the case of Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal

Case notes critically analyse and evaluate rulings from the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the national courts of the Commonwealth States, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights.

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children

In addition, the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg has passed judgments involving trafficking in human beings which violated obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Siliadin v. France, judgment of 26 July 2005, and Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia, judgment of 7 January 2010.

Riga Graduate School of Law

A number of distinguished legal practitioners and academics have contributed to the series, among them Luzius Wildhaber, former President of the European Court of Human Rights, Jutta Limbach, former President of the German Constitutional Court, and Anita Usacka, Judge of the International Criminal Court.

Supreme Court of Spain

Supreme Court decisions can exceptionally be overruled by the Constitutional Court where there has been an infringement of rights and freedoms of citizens which are embodied in the Spanish Constitution of 1978 or by decisions emanating from the European Court of Human Rights because Spain is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights