hide
Free keywords:
Grand chamber; compatibility ratione personae, loci, materiae; extraterritorial jurisdiction; victim; exhaustion of local remedies; advisory opinion; just satisfaction; pilot procedure; Committee of Ministers; obligation to take into account
Abstract:
The paper explains the complaint procedures at the European Court of Human rights (ECtHR). It sets out the admissibility criteria for individual complaints (sec. B.I) and state complaints (sec. B.II). Under the heading of compatibility ratione loci it also sketches out the parameters of the extraterritorial application of the ECHR (sec. B.I.3). The paper explains the normal course of proceedings (sec. B. III), advisory opinions (sec B.IV) and provisional measures (sec. B.V). Sec. B.VI explains the contents and effects of judgments. This encompasses the awards of just satisfaction and general and specific positive measures besides the finding of a violation. The effects of judgments are analysed on the level of international law and in German law. Sec. B.VII analyses the implementation of judgments. Sec. C. gives an outlook on the possible future development of the convention system, including the currently stalled accession of the EU to the ECHR and the evolution of the relationship between the Court system and the Member States.
