REFLECTIONS ON STATE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BREACH OF POSITIVE OBLIGATIONS: THE CASE-LAW OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Italian Yearbook of International Law

Volumn 13, Issue , 2005, Pages 3-10

  Conforti, Benedetto ^a  

^a The European Court of Human Rights   (France)

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References (22)

1. ILC, Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, Commentary to Article 14, § 3, Offi cial Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-Sixth Session, Supplement No.10 and Corrigendum (A/56/10 and Corr.1). See also, generally, The Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of its Fifty-Third Session which contains the Draft Articles on State Responsibility and the Resolution adopted by the General Assembly, A/RES/ 56/83 taking note of the articles.
2. Judgments and decisions on admissibility of the Court will be quoted by mentioning the date and the name of the parties only, since they can easily be found on the web-site of the Court available at http://www.echr.coe.int/Eng/Judgments.htm.
3. See, among others, the following judgments: LCB v. UK, Judgment of 9 June 1998, § 36;
4. Osman v. UK, Judgment of 26 October 1998, § 115;
5. Kiliç v. Turkey, Judgment of 28 March 2000, § 62;
6. Keenan v. UK, Judgment of 3 April 2001, § 88;
7. Mastromatteo v. Italy, Judgment of 24 October 2002, § 67.
8. Bromiley v. UK, Decision of 23 November 1999.
9. Osman v. UK, cit. supra note 3, § 116.
10. Judgment of 23 September 1998.
11. Judgment of 26 March 1965.
12. Cit. supra note 3, §§ 65-68.
13. Decision of 18 October 1995, DR 83-A, p. 29.
14. HONORE, "Causation and Remoteness of Damage", in TUNC (ed.), International Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law, Tubingen, 1971, Vol. XI, Part 1, Ch. VII, §§ 13, 44.
15. For a review of the case-law of the Court on the subject, see KEMPEES, A Systematic Guide to the Case-Law of the ECHR, The Hague, 1996-2000, sub Article 50.
16. BOLLECKER-STERN, Le préjudice dans la théorie de la responsabilité internationale, Paris, 1973, p. 179.
17. MAS, "Right to Compensation under Article 50", in MACDONALD, MATSCHER and PETZOLD (eds.), The European System for the Protection of Human Rights, Dordrecht, 1993, p. 777 ff., p. 784.
18. Cf. CRAWFORD, "Revising the Draft Articles on State Responsibility", EJIL, 1999, p. 435 ff., p. 441.
19. Reference is made to observations submitted by the present author in the book on International Law and the Role of Domestic Legal Systems, (English version of the General Course on public international law delivered at the Hague Academy in 1988), Dordrecht, 1993, p. 171.
20. This subjective element is maintained tel quel in the new Draft of the ILC (cf. Article 2 (a)).
21. QUADRI, "Cours general de droit international public", RCADI, 1964, III, pp. 237-483, p. 457.
22. Draft Articles on State Responsibility, cit. supra note 1.