Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights

FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1. Introduction - The Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights; 2. Practice and Procedure of the European Court: Pre-admissibility; 3. Practice and Procedure of the European Court: Post-admissibility; 4. Practice and Procedure of the European Court: Judgment and Enforcement; 5. Admissibility Criteria; 6. Underlying Convention Principles; 7. The Substantive Rights of the European Convention; 8. Derogation and Reservation; 9. Just Satisfaction (Article 41); 10. Strengthening the Prohibition of Discrimination: Protocol 12; 11. Case Study: Peck v UK; 12. Sources of Information on the European Convention on Human Rights; APPENDIX 1 - CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS AS AMENDED BY PROTOCOL NO. 11 (WITH PROTOCOL NOS. 1 , 4, 6, 7, 12 AND 13); APPENDIX 2 - PROTOCOL NO. 14 TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, AMENDING THE CONTROL SYSTEM OF THE CONVENTION, 13 MAY 2004; APPENDIX 3 - RULES OF COURT (NOVEMEBER 2003); APPENDIX 4 - APPLICATION FORM; APPENDIX 5 - FORM OF AUTHORITY; APPENDIX 6 - COURT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER; APPENDIX 7 - RULE 36 FORM OF APPOINTMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE; APPENDIX 8 - DECLARATION OF APPLICANT'S MEANS; APPENDIX 9 - COMMITTEE DECISION LETTER: (X V X); APPENDIX 10 - EUROPEAN COURT LEGAL AID RATES (AS APPLICABLE FROM 1 JANUARY 2004); APPENDIX 11 - NATIONAL AUTHORITIES COMPETENT TO CERTIFY THE INDIGENCE OF APPLICANTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF RULE 93 OF CHAPTER X OF THE RULES OF COURT; APPENDIX 12 - NOTES FOR GUIDANCE OF PERSONS APPEARING AT HEARINGS BEFORE THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS; APPENDIX 13 - TABLE OF DATES OF ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE CONVENTION AND ITS PROTOCOLS; APPENDIX 14 - COMPOSITION OF THE COURT (AND SECTIONS); APPENDIX 15 - RULES ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS FOR THE APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 46, PARAGRAPH 2 OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, 10 JANUARY 2001; APPENDIX 16 - EUROPEAN AGREEMENT RELATING TO PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, E.T.S. NO. 16, 5 MARCH 1996; APPENDIX 17 - CONDITIONAL FEE AGREEMENT (ENGLAND AND WALES); APPENDIX 18 - VIENNA CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF TREATIES (SECTIONS 31-33); APPENDIX 19 - RECOMMENDATION R(2000)2 OF THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS ON THE RE-EXAMINATION OR REOPENING OF CERTAIN CASES AT DOMESTIC LEVEL FOLLOWING JUDGEMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, 19 JANUARY 2000; APPENDIX 20 - RESOLUTION RES(2004)3 OF THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS ON JUDGEMENTS REVEALING AN UNDERLYING SYSTEMIC PROBLEM, 12 MAY 2004; APPENDIX 21 - RECOMMENDATION REC(2004)6 OF THE COMMITTE OF MINISTERS TO MEMBER STATES ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF DOMESTIC REMEDIES, 12 MAY 2004; APPENDIX 22 - PECK V UK: APPLICATION UNDER ARTICLE 31, 17 NOVEMBER 1998; APPENDIX 23 - PECK V UK: GOVERNMENT'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE ADMISSIBILITY AND MERITS, 29 FEBRUARY 2000; APPENDIX 24 - PECK V UK: APPLICANT'S FURTHER OBSERVATIONS, 18 MAY 2000; APPENDIX 25 - THIRD PARTY INTERVENTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS (ICJ) IN MAMATKULOV AND ABDURASULOVIC V TURKEY; APPENDIX 26 - THIRD PARTY INTERVENTION OF LIBERTY AND THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS IN WILSON, NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS AND OTHERS V UK, 5 JANUARY 2001; APPENDIX 27 - THIRD PARTY INTERVENTION OF LIBERTY IN GOODWIN V UK, I V UK, 16 JANUARY 2002; APPENDIX 28 - THIRD PARTY INTERVENTION OF ILGA-EUROPE, LIBERTY AND STONEWALL IN KARNER V AUSTRIA, 12 MARCH 2002; APPENDIX 29 - THIRD PARTY INTERVENTION OF OSCE MISSION TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN BLECIC V CROATIA; APPENDIX 30 - THIRD PARTY INTERVENTION OF INTERIGHTS IN M.C. V BULGARIA, 12 APRIL 2003; YOYLER V TURKEY: APPLICANT'S MAP OF HIS VILLAGE (USED DURING THE FACT-FINDING HEARING); KALASHNIKOV V RUSSIA: COMMITTE OF MINISTERS INTERIM RESOLUTION RESDH(2003)123, 4 JUNE 2003; INDEX