On 13 October the ECHR organised a half-day Seminar Judicial dialogue through the advisory opinion mechanism under Protocol No. 16 to mark the fifth anniversary of the coming into force of Protocol No. 16 and the advisory opinion mechanism. The Seminar gathered together superior court presidents from many Council of Europe member States (including from those States which have not ratified the Protocol) to take stock of how the mechanism is operating in practice and reflect on how it could develop in the future.

• Programme

Video of the Seminar: English - Original language

• Speech by Síofra O’Leary, President of the ECHR
• Speech by Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe 
• Speech by Tim Eicke, Judge at the ECHR
• Speech by Enrico Albanesi, Professor of Constitutional law, University of Genova
• Speech by Pauliine Koskelo, Judge at the ECHR 
• Speech by Christophe Soulard, First President of the French Court of Cassation