Opening of the Judicial Year 2017
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27/01/2017
The official opening of the Court’s Judicial Year took place on 27 January 2017. Some 300 senior judicial figures from European States took part in a seminar on the theme: Non-refoulement as a principle of international law and the role of the judiciary in its implementation. Following the seminar, President Guido Raimondi and Silvia Alejandra Fernández de Gurmendi, President of the International Criminal Court, addressed an audience of about 350 at the solemn hearing.
Opening of the Seminar: Original language English
Workshop 1: Original language English Workshop 2:Original language
Concluding session: Original language English
Solemn Hearing: Original language English Speech by President Guido Raimondi Programme
Chamber
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Judgment concerning the Russian Federation
02/02/2017In the case of Navalnyy v. Russia, the Court held that there had been several violations of the Convention.
The applicant is a political activist, opposition leader, anti-corruption campaigner and popular blogger. The case concerned this arrest on 7 occasions at different public gatherings, and his subsequent prosecution for administrative offences.
Press release (in Russian)
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Judgment concerning Belgium
31/01/2017In the case of Kalnėnienė v. Belgium, the Court found a violation of the right to respect for private life on account of a house search which was conducted in the applicant’s home without a search warrant.
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Official visits
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Visit by a delegation from the French Conseil d’État
06/02/2017On 3 February 2017 Jean-Marc Sauvé, Vice-President of the French Conseil d’État, accompanied by a delegation made up of Bernard Stirn, President of the Administrative Disputes Section, Maryvonne de Saint-Pulgent, President of the Reports and Studies Section, Fabien Raynaud, member of the Conseil d’État and President of the 6th Division, Yves Gounin, member of the Conseil d’État with responsibility for international relations, Mattias Guyomar, member of the Conseil d’État and President of the 10th Division, Béatrice Bourgeois-Machureau, member of the Conseil d’État and Public Rapporteur with the 2nd Division, and Guillaume Odinet, legal adviser with the Conseil d’État, visited the Court and were received by President Guido Raimondi. During the visit the delegation took part in a Round Table composed of Juges Angelika Nußberger, Vice-President of the Court and judge elected in respect of Germany, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, Section President and judge elected in respect of Greece, André Potocki, judge elected in respect of France, and Síofra O’Leary, judge elected in respect of Ireland.
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Grand Chamber
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Referral
31/01/2017The Court rejected all 19 requests for referral to the Grand Chamber.
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Other information
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Country profiles for Press
31/01/2017“Country profiles” containing data and information, broken down by individual State, on significant cases considered by the Court or currently pending before it, have been updated on the occasion of the ECHR Press Conference. There is one country file for each Council of Europe member State.
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Hearings
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Hearing in February
31/01/2017In February 2017 the Court will be holding a hearing in the case of Correia de Matos v. Portugal.
The case concerns the criminal proceedings brought against the applicant, a lawyer, for insulting a judge, and the fact that he was not permitted to conduct his own defence in those proceedings because the domestic courts required him to be represented by a lawyer.
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Press Conference & Statistics
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Press Conference 2017
26/01/2017Speaking at the annual press conference of the Court on 26 January 2017, President Guido Raimondi took stock of the year 2016 and reported that the volume of incoming cases, after falling over the previous two years, had considerably increased.
This had largely been the result of the situation in three countries: Hungary and Romania, for complaints about detention conditions, and Turkey, especially since the dramatic attempted coup d’état in July 2016.
Press release Speech by President Guido Raimondi (in French only) Webcast of the Press Conference
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Delivered Judgments & Decisions
Forthcoming Judgments & Decisions
07-09/02/2017