You will find a link below to an essay on the form of judgments in the Strasbourg Court intended for an edited collection examining the contribution of forms of judgment to the work of a number of United Kingdom, overseas and international courts. It flows from a seminar in the University of Oxford in June 2008 in honour of Lord Bingham of Cornhill.
The essay is copyright Robin C A White, and may not be quoted without the express permission of the author. It is included here to provide a preview of material which will in due course appear in M Andenas and S Vogenhauer (eds) A Matter of Style? The Form of Judgments in the United Kingdom and Abroad: Essays in Honour of Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Hart Publishing, 2009 forthcoming.
http://www.le.ac.uk/law/wyt/echressay.pdf