Essay on form of judgments in the Strasbourg Court

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

Database now available on the Leicester Research Archive

The working database of the project is now available on the Leicester Research Archive.

See https://lra.le.ac.uk/handle/2381/1402 to access the archive and get further information about the database.

Material from the dissemination seminar

The presentations from the dissemination seminar of 23 October 2007 can be found at:

http://www.le.ac.uk/law/wyt/ahrc01.pps

http://www.le.ac.uk/law/wyt/ahrc02.pps

The book to which Judge Ziemele referred is Nina-Louisa Arold, The Legal Culture of the European Court of Human Rights, Brill, 2007, ISBN 978 9004160675

Strasbourg judge visits the University

Judge Ziemele from the European Court of Human Rights has participated in a one day seminar in the University which explored some of themes emerging from the two-year AHRC-funded research project into separate and dissenting opinions in the Strasbourg Court. Judge Ziemele (pictured second from the right) opened the seminar with some remarks on the role of separate and dissenting opinions and heard Dr Boussiakou and Professor White elaborate some of their research findings. At the end of the day Professor Merrills from the University of Sheffield (pictured far left) offered some observations as discussant. Robin White said, ‘This was a valuable seminar which addressed issues of current concern to the Strasbourg Court, and has provided Iris and me with further food for thought on the issues we are investigating. The participation of Judge Ziemele made the day.’

Judge Ziemele to speak at dissemination seminar

Judge Ziemele has agreed to open the dissemination seminar on 23 October by speaking briefly about the preparation of judgments in the Court of Human Rights.

There are just one or two places still available on this seminar, for which booking closes on Tuesday 16 October.

Iris Boussiakou visits the Strasbourg Court

As part of this research project, Dr Iris Boussiakou (the project's research associate) spent the week beginning 1 October at the European Court of Human Rights talking to judges and legal officers about the process of writing judgments. She interviewed ten judges, who provided insights into their own approach to writing judgments as well as commenting on the structure of Strasboug judgments generally. These views will provide the voice from the Court in the outcomes of this research project. We are very grateful to the President of the Court and the staff of the Strasbourg Court for facilitating Dr Boussiakou's visit.

Judge Ziemele to attend dissemination seminar

We are delighted that Judge Ziemele of the Strasbourg Court will be attending the dissemination seminar on 23 October 2007.