Overview of the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights 2015
Pages: 132 pages
Shipping Weight: 350 gram
Published: 04-2016
Publisher: WLP
Language: NL
ISBN (softcover) : 9789462402904
Product Description
Every year, the European Court of Human Rights delivers a large number of judgments and an even greater number of decisions, thus adding to its already formidable body of case-law. This can make it difficult for people outside the Court to know which cases break new ground or address new issues.
An increasingly important aspect of the Court’s work has thus become to identify such cases and to disseminate them in a convenient and accessible format.
This new annual Overview series, available in English and French, seeks to respond to that need by focusing on the most important cases the Court deals with each year. All the cases are selected by the Court’s Jurisconsult’s Directorate on the basis of their jurisprudential interest. In addition to the cases chosen for publication in the Court’s Reports of Judgments and Decisions, they include a number of other cases that raise issues of general interest, establish new principles, or develop or clarify the case-law. The approach has been to draw attention to the salient points, allowing the reader to appreciate the jurisprudential significance of a particular case.
Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
JURISDICTION AND ADMISSIBILITY
Jurisdiction of States (Article 1)
Admissibility conditions
Exhaustion of domestic remedies (Article 35 § 1)
“CORE” RIGHTS
Right to life (Article 2)
Positive obligations
Effective investigation
Prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment (Article 3)
Prohibition of torture
Inhuman and degrading treatment
Degrading treatment
Effective investigation
Emotional suffering of close relatives
Armed forces
Prohibition of slavery and forced labour (Article 4)
Forced or compulsory labour
Right to liberty and security (Article 5)
Confinement in psychiatric hospital without consent (Article 5 § 1 (e))
Proceedings for extradition with a view to prosecution in the requesting State (Article 5 § 1 (f ))
Conditional release on bail (Article 5 § 3)
Review of lawfulness of detention (Article 5 § 4)
Speedy review of the lawfulness of detention (Article 5 § 4)
PROCEDURAL RIGHTS IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS
Right to a fair hearing (Article 6 § 1)
Applicability
Access to a court
Fairness of the proceedings
Independent tribunal
Execution of a final judgment
Right to an effective remedy (Article 13)
PROCEDURAL RIGHTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
Right to a fair trial (Article 6)
Procedural fairness
Impartial tribunal (Article 6 § 1)
Presumption of innocence (Article 6 § 2)
Defence rights (Article 6 § 3)
No punishment without law (Article 7)
Right of appeal in criminal matters (Article 2 of Protocol No. 7)
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
Right to respect for one’s private and family life, home and correspondence (Article 8)
Private life
Private and family life
Private life and home
Private life and correspondence
Family life
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Article 9)
Freedom of religion
Freedom of expression (Article 10)
Applicability
Freedom of expression
Freedom to impart information
Freedom of the press
Right to receive and impart information
Freedom of assembly and association (Article 11)
Freedom of peaceful assembly
Right to strike
Prohibition of discrimination (Article 14)
Article 14 in conjunction with Article 3
Protection of property (Article 1 of Protocol No. 1)
Applicability
Enjoyment of possessions
Positive obligations
Right to education (Article 2 of Protocol No. 1)
Right to free elections (Article 3 of Protocol No. 1)
OTHER CONVENTION PROVISIONS
Binding force and execution of judgments (Article 46)
Pilot judgments
Execution of judgments
LIST OF CITED CASES