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Human Rights in Europe

Human Rights in Europe. Council of Europe - http://www.coe.int. Council of Europe Treaties http://conventions.coe.int Directorate General of Human Rights @ http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/ documents and news organised by subject

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Human Rights in Europe

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  1. Human Rights in Europe

  2. Council of Europe - http://www.coe.int • Council of Europe Treaties http://conventions.coe.int • Directorate General of Human Rights @ http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/ documents and news organised by subject • Commissioner for Human Rights @ http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/ • European Court of Human Rights - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr • Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii

  3. Legal affairs includes link to the Treaties Office – COE treaties, ratification information, subject index etc Directorate General of Human rights – information for different themes/conventions (e.g. torture, women's rights, national minorities etc) including introductory information, publications/documents, country reports, news, events etc Text of the convention, signatories, ratifications, reservations etc Reports and other documents from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights

  4. European Court of Human Rights: Judgments • Official Reports • Before 1 Nov 1998 known as Series A and numbered consecutively e.g. Plattform ‘Ärtze für das Leben’ v Austria (App no 10126/82) (1988) Series A no 139 • After 1 Nov 1998 - Renamed Reports of Judgments and Decisions (cited ECHR)e.g. Osman v UK (App no 23452/94) ECHR 1998-VIII 3124 • Available in print at Internat 121 and online on Justis • European Human Rights Reports (EHRR) • e.g. Young, James and Webster v UK (App no 7601/76) (1982) 4 EHRR 38 • Available in print at Internat 150 E60 on Westlaw • OSCOLA – Cite Official Reports or EHRR

  5. ECHR: Transcripts • Court Transcripts • Court web site – HUDOC - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr • Worldlii • Netherlands Institute

  6. Full text searching use the following connectors: AND • OR • NOT • WITHIN N OF *TRUNCATION • ? SINGLE CHARACTER Reports of Judgments and Decisions (ECHR) on Justis

  7. Official reports – old style series A Transcript Official reports – new style

  8. EHRR on Westlaw • UK section of Westlaw includes ECHR judgments • European Court of Human Rights Reports (includes all court judgments and selected commission decisions)

  9. Choose “Advanced Search” for more options

  10. Searches full text of all judgments Searches party names Searches for cases by legislation considered. Searches for cases which have considered an earlier case

  11. Related information including: • List of reports of the case • Summary of the issues • Legislation considered in the judgment • Earlier cases considered in the judgment • Later cases which have considered this judgment • Commentary on the judgment Full text of the case

  12. ECHR web site • http://www.echr.coe.int/ • Basic Documents and texts of the court • Database of transcripts of judgments and commission decisions • To go direct to the transcripts database http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/

  13. History, organization, composition, procedures etc European Convention on Human Rights and additional protocols Transcripts database

  14. To search decisions of the European Commission (ceased 1999) open up decisions box. Note not all commission decisions are available. Some judgments are only available on one language Use … to browse a thesaurus of terms HUDOC - Transcripts Make sure the “from” field is not filled in when you open up the database

  15. Keywords in context – finds your keywords and displays sorrounding text Links to related information Full text Analytical information including dates, party names, who the case was referred by, Strasbourg case law cited, keywords, durable URL

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