The Collections

Description

HUDOC database

Contains the case-law of the European Convention on Human Rights including the following texts:

• Decisions, Judgments and Advisory Opinions of the Court
• Reports of the European Commission of Human Rights*
• Resolutions of the Committee of Ministers

Documents may be in only one or both of the official languages. Most texts are available in HTML and Word formats. Older texts are in PDF format.
 

* Texts adopted until 31 October 1999.
 

Case-law Information Notes

Monthly Information Notes contain summaries of cases of particular interest. In the provisional version (which appears within a few weeks from the end of the month covered) summaries are normally drafted in the language of the case concerned, whereas the final single-language version appears in English and French respectively.

This collection also contains annual indexes which provide an overview of all reported cases.

Information Notes and indexes appear in PDF format.

Communicated cases

This collection contains:

• Weekly lists of cases recently communicated to a respondent State and deemed to be of more significant jurisprudential interest. Each case is listed with a link to a statement of facts and complaints (as presented by the applicant) and the questions put by the Court.
• Statements of facts and complaints (as presented by the applicant) and the questions put by the Court for each recently communicated case deemed to be of more significant jurisprudential interest.

The lists of communicated cases are bilingual and in PDF format. Statements normally appear in one of the official languages only and are available in HTML and Word formats.

Press releases

This collection contains all the press releases issued by the Registry since 1 January 1999. Available in English and French, they include summaries of judgments and decisions delivered by the Court and information about cases pending and about the Court’s activities in general.

Press releases are normally available in both English and French and are in PDF format.