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  • Dr Elif Askin

Guidance for Assessing Discrimination under Article 14 ECHR: Advisory Opinion on the Difference in Treatment between Landowners’ Associations “having a recognised Existence on the Date of the Creation of an approved Municipal Hunters’ Association” and Landowners’ Associations set up after that Date

January 31, 2023

By Dr Elif Askin The prohibition of discrimination in Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has been criticised for being a ‘parasitic’ right of marginal impact and ‘a kind of a Cinderella provision that has not been given an opportunity to shine’. Over the past decade, however, the European Court of […]

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  • Laurens Lavrysen

Advisory Opinion No. 2: a Slightly Bigger Rodent

June 05, 2020

Little over a year ago, I wrote a blog post discussing the Advisory Opinion No. 1 issued under Protocol No. 16, with the title “The mountain gave birth to a mouse”. Last week, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights give birth to Advisory Opinion No. 2 “concerning the use of the […]

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  • Laurens Lavrysen

The mountain gave birth to a mouse: the first Advisory Opinion under Protocol No. 16

April 24, 2019

On 10 April, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Right adopted its first Advisory Opinion under the new Protocol No. 16 to the ECHR, which entered into force on 1 August last year. This Protocol, which has so far been ratified by twelve States, allows the “highest domestic courts” to request the […]

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