January 31, 2020
By Prof Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou (University of Liverpool), Editor-in-Chief of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review It has been discussed on various levels that weak enforcement of the ECtHR judgments is a major drawback of the whole system. The lack of political will of the governments of the Contracting Parties to the Convention to […]
September 17, 2019
By Lize R. Glas, Assistant Professor of European law, Radboud University, the Netherlands When the Court took the unprecedented decision to strike 12,143 repetitive cases out of its list in Burmych and Others v. Ukraine on 12 October 2017, it added that it may reassess the situation within two years and restore the cases. As […]
October 26, 2017
By Eline Kindt, PhD researcher Human Rights Centre – Ghent University The recent Burmych and others v. Ukraine judgment of the ECtHR of 12 October 2017 has thoroughly shifted the institutional balance in the Council of Europe between the Court and the Committee of Ministers. The Court decided to pull itself away from a situation […]