A brief history of the origins and development of the European Court of Human Rights

Diana Babuskova (ed.)
Pages: 150 pages
Shipping Weight: 510 gram
Published: 07-2013
Publisher: WLP
Language: US
ISBN (softcover) : 9789058870704

Product Description

The European Court of Human Rights is a supra-national or international court established by the European Convention on Human Rights. It hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights provisions concerning civil and political rights set out in the Convention and its protocols. An application can be lodged by an individual, a group of individuals or one or more of the other contracting states, and, besides judgements, the Court can also issue advisory opinions. The Convention was adopted within the context of the Council of Europe, and all of its 47 member states are contracting parties to the Convention. The Court is based in Strasbourg, France. In this book a brief history of the origins and development of the Court is being presented. The appendix contains the most basic documents of the Court and it is one of the first books containing the recently (May 2013) updated Rules of Court.