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Case-Law Information Note
This monthly publication contains summaries of cases (judgments, admissibility decisions, communicated cases and cases pending before the Grand Chamber) considered to be of particular interest. Each summary has a headnote and is classified by the Convention Article(s) to which the case relates and by keywords. The Case-Law Information Note also provides news about the Court and Court publications.
In the provisional version of the Note, the summaries are normally drafted in the language of the case concerned; final single-language versions are later published in both English and French. An annual index provides an overview of all the cases summarised in each calendar year.
Contents
- Case-Law Information Note
- Admissibility Guide
- Case-law Research Reports
- Factsheets
- Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration
- Handbook on European Non-Discrimination Law
- Publications of the Council of Europe’s Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law
- Anniversary Book: The Conscience of Europe
2013
Information Note no. 159 (January 2013)
Information Note no. 160 (February 2013)
Information Note no. 161 (March 2013)
Provisional Information Note no. 162 (April 2013)
Provisional Information Note no. 163 (May 2013)
Subscription
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2012
Information Note no. 148 (January 2012)
Information Note no. 149 (February 2012)
Information Note no. 150 (March 2012)
Information Note no. 151 (April 2012)
Information Note no. 152 (May 2012)
Information Note no. 153 (June 2012)
Information Note no. 154 (July 2012)
Information Note no. 155 (August-Sept. 2012)
Information Note no.156 (October 2012)
2011
Information Note no. 137 (January 2011)
Information Note no. 138 (February 2011)
Information Note no. 139 (March 2011)
Information Note no. 140 (April 2011)
Information Note no. 141 (May 2011)
Information Note no. 142 (June 2011)
Information Note no. 143 (July 2011)
Information Note no. 144 (August-Sept. 2011)
Information Note no. 145 (October 2011)
Admissibility Guide
The Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria is intended mainly for lawyers who wish to bring a case before the Court. It describes the conditions of admissibility which an application must meet. By publishing this comprehensive Guide the Court seeks to stem the flow of obviously inadmissible cases which are flooding it. The Guide was published in 2009 and updated in 2011.
Case-law Research Reports
Bioethics and the case-law of the Court English Russian
Case-law of the Court on young people English
New admissibility criterion English French Bulgarian
References to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights English
Child sexual abuse and child pornography in the Court’s case-law English
Cultural rights English French
Freedom of religion French Russian
Internet: case-law of the Court English French Russian
Positive obligations under Article 10 English Russian
Role of public prosecutor English Russian
Use of Council of Europe treaties in the case-law of the Court English
Factsheets
The Press Service has compiled factsheets by theme on the Court’s case-law and pending cases.
Handbook on European law relating to asylum, borders and immigration
To order the handbook or any other FRA publication, write to: information@fra.europa.eu
Handbook on European Non-Discrimination Law
This handbook, published jointly by the Court and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), is the first comprehensive guide to European non-discrimination law. It is available in more than 20 languages. The first case-law update of the handbook covers the period from July 2010 until December 2011.
To order the handbook or any other FRA publication, write to: information@fra.europa.eu
Other languages
Publications of the Council of Europe’s Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law
Human Rights Files
The “Human rights files” series is aimed at specialists in European law: lawyers, practitioners and research students. It also constitutes a useful resource for the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in the signatory states.
Human Rights Handbooks
Written by experts in the field, each handbook deals with one aspect of the European Convention on Human Rights or its protocols. They were written with legal practitioners, and particularly judges, in mind, but are accessible also to other interested readers.
Execution of Judgments
Human Rights Information Bulletin
The “Bulletin”, under different titles, was published from 1978 to summer 2012, with the aim to summarise events in the field of human rights from the perspective of the Council of Europe. Each issue has sections devoted to different developments : cases before the organs of the European Convention on Human Rights, social rights, prevention of torture, protection of national minorities, gender equality, media, etc.
Practical Impacts of Monitoring
This document describes the way in which the Council of Europe mechanisms pertaining to human rights and rule of law have worked towards definite improvements in legislation, practice and the situation of individuals in the member states.
Human Rights and Criminal Procedure
This handbook is intended to assist judges, lawyers and prosecutors to take account of the many requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights - both explicit and implicit - for the criminal process when interpreting and applying Codes of Criminal Procedure and comparable or related legislation.
Human rights and the fight against terrorism
The guidelines affirm states’obligation to protect everyone against terrorism, and reiterate the need to avoid arbitrariness. They also stress that all measures taken by states to combat terrorism must be lawful,and that torture must be prohibited. The legal framework set out in the guidelines concerns, in particular, the collecting and processing of personal data, measures which interfere with privacy, arrest, police custody and pre-trial detention, legal proceedings, extradition and compensation of victims.
Improvement of domestic remedies
Anniversary Book: The Conscience of Europe
This book, designed to mark the Court’s 50th anniversary in 2009 and the Convention’s 60th in 2010, does not purport to be a full and complete history of the institution. Nor is it a treatise on the Court’s procedure and case-law, on which many publications already exist. Rather, being intended for the general reader wishing to increase his or her knowledge of the Court as an institution, it steers a course between an academic commentary and a purely introductory guide. It groups a variety of individual contributions, on topics generally selected by the authors themselves, round a skeleton retracing the main relevant events over the last half-century.
Publication has been made possible by a generous contribution from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Themes and topics
Section 1 - The history of the Court
Section 2 - The Court today
Section 3 - Some notable people in the Court's history
Section 4 - The institutions’ buildings
Section 5 - Achievements and options for the future
More information
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