A date for your diaries

A new date has been fixed for the dissemination seminar.

This will now take place in Leicester on Tuesday, 23 October 2007.

Watch this space for further details.

Email robin.white@leicester.ac.uk to express interest in attending this seminar.

We are reserving a number of places for postgraduate students.

Five facts we have discovered so far

We apologise for the cancellation of the dissemination seminars, but we offer a flavour of what we have discovered so far in these five facts.

1. Four out of five judgments of the Court of Human Rights contain more than a single opinion.

2. Out of nearly 4,000 judgments, only 218 attracted a single dissenting opinion. 165 of these involved a dissent by the national judge.

3. The percentage of non-unanimous judgments in the Grand Chamber is lower than the percentage of non-unanimous judgments of Chambers of the Court.

4. In nine out of ten judgments, a violation of some provision of the Convention is found.

5. Sinec 2000, there has been a steady increase in the number of judgments in which the Court has found no violation of a Convention provision: 9 per cent in 2000 rising to 13 per cent in 2004.

Seminar update

Due to unforeseen circumstances all three seminars have been cancelled

Further details will follow

A series of free seminars

This series of free seminars will explore the numerical analysis of the case law of the Strasbourg Court.
The research seminar is offered at three venues as follows:
Tuesday, 24 April 2007: 10.00 to 16.00: Ramada Mount Royal Hotel, Edinburgh
Friday, 27 April 2007: 10.00 to 16.00: Gray’s Inn, London
Tuesday, 1 May 2007: 10.00 to 16.00: New Hall, The University of Leicester
Registration is free, but is by invitation or application. Numbers are limited, so we may not be able to accommodate every request to attend.
If you would like to attend one of these seminars, please email your request to Robin White robin.white@leicester.ac.uk
Details of the programme will be sent to participants nearer the date. The seminars provide an opportunity to report progress with the research project to date and presentation of some of the findings. Opportunities for discussion will enable participants to hypothesise on the significance of the findings to date.

Completed database goes live

Professor Robin White and colleagues celebrate the mammouth task of constructing the database that now holds details of 3,989 judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, whilst Dr Iris Boussiakou, Research Associate for the project, loads the final case.

Conference venues

View from the restaurant
Ramada Mount Royal Hotel
Edinburgh
Conference date: 24th April 2007
Timings: 10.00 - 16.00





Gray's Inn
London
Conference date: 27th April 2007
Timings: 10.00 - 16.00






New Hall
University of Leicester
Conference date: 1st May 2007
Timings: 10.00 - 16.00