Faltering steps on the path to reform of the Strasbourg enforcement system

Human Rights Law Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 609-618

  Mowbray, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34547972985     PISSN: 14617781     EISSN: 17441021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hrlr/ngm017     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. See Mowbray, 'Beyond Protocol 14', (2006) 6 Human Rights Law Review 578.
2. Interim Report of the group of Wise Persons to the Committee of Ministers, 10 May 2006, CM(2006)88.
3. Ibid. at para. 23.
4. For details see Mowbray, 'Protocol 14 to the ECHR and Recent Strasbourg Cases, (2004) 4 Human Rights Law Review 331.
5. 2004-VII 179; (2005) 40 EHRR 46.
6. See also Mowbray, Cases and Materials on the European Convention on Human Rights, 2nd edn (Oxford: OUP, 2007) at 61.
7. Council of Europe Press Release 816 (2006), Russian State Duma votes against the ratification of Protocol 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights: Declaration by Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis, 22 December 2006.
8. He was originally nominated for appointment to the Court in 1998 by France and has been a Vice-President of the Court since 2001.
9. Solemn hearing of the European Court of Human Rights on the occasion of the opening of the judicial year Friday 19 January 2007, Speech by Jean-Paul Costa, President of the European Court of Human Rights, available at: www.echr.coe.int.
10. 19,300 cases (21.5% of the total) on 1 January 2007. The next largest group was 10,850 (12.1% of the total) lodged against Romania. 2,200 (2.4% of the total) were against the United Kingdom. See European Court of Human Rights Survey of Activities 2006, available at: www.echr.coe.int.
11. The complaint was made on 26 March 2007, under Article 33, ECHR.
12. Including Ireland v UK A 25 (1978);
13. (1979-80) 2 EHRR 25;
14. and Cyprus v Turkey 2001-IV 1;
15. (2002) 35 EHRR 731.
16. CM(2006)203, 15 November 2006.
17. Ibid. at paras 68-9.
18. Ibid. at para. 81.
19. Ibid. at para. 84.
20. Ibid. at para. 85.
21. Ibid. at para. 86.
22. Greer, The European Convention on Human Rights: Achievements, Problems and Prospects (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) at 192.
23. Mowbray, supra n. 1 at 584.
24. GWP Report, supra n. 12 at paras 23-4.
25. Ibid. at para. 42.
26. Greer, supra n. 18 at 169.
27. Speech by Jean-Paul Costa, supra n. 8 at 7.
28. GWP Report, supra n. 12 at para. 52.
29. Ibid. at para. 53.
30. Ibid. at para. 54.
31. Article 21(1), ECHR [emphasis added].
32. GWP Report, supra n. 12 at para. 54.
33. Ibid. at para. 53.
34. Ibid. at para. 57.
35. Ibid. at para. 64.
36. Ibid. at para. 61.
37. Ibid. at para. 63.
38. Note, for example, in 2006 the Court was responsible for determining 27,243 applications to be inadmissible, Survey of Activities, supra n. 9.
39. GWP Report, supra n. 12 at para. 96.
40. (2003) 36 EHRR CD 43. See also Mowbray, supra n. 5 at 871.
41. Judgment of 6 July 2006, Application No. 8196/02.
42. Ibid. at para. 70.
43. 984th Meeting, 17-18 January 2007.
44. Press release 180(2007), Council of Europe. I am indebted to Dr E. Bates, University of Southampton, for informing me of this material.
45. Available at: http://www.coe.int/t/f/droits.de.l'homme/ 1SanMarinoSGA.en.pdf.
46. Ibid. at 2.
47. Ibid. at 4 [emphasis added].
48. GWP Report, supra n. 12 at para. 32.