Human Rights in Europe

Council of Europe - http://www.coe.int

• Council of Europe Treaties http://conventions.coe.int• Directorate General of Human Rights @

http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/ documents and news organised by subject

• Commissioner for Human Rights @ http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/

• European Court of Human Rights - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr– Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC, Worldlii

Directorate General of Human rights – information for different themes/conventions (e.g. torture, women's rights, national minorities etc) including introductory information, publications/documents, country reports, news, events etc

Text of the convention, signatories, ratifications, reservations etc

Reports and other documents from the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights

Legal affairs includes link to the Treaties Office – COE treaties, ratification information, subject index etc

European Court of Human Rights: Judgments

• Official Reports – Before 1 Nov 1998 known as Series A and numbered

consecutively e.g. Plattform ‘Ärtze für das Leben’ v Austria (App no 10126/82) (1988) Series A no 139

– After 1 Nov 1998 - Renamed Reports of Judgments and Decisions (cited ECHR)e.g. Osman v UK (App no 23452/94) ECHR 1998-VIII 3124

– Available in print at Internat 121 and online on Justis

• European Human Rights Reports (EHRR)– e.g. Young, James and Webster v UK (App no 7601/76) (1982)

4 EHRR 38 – Available in print at Internat 150 E60 on Westlaw

• OSCOLA – Cite Official Reports or EHRR

ECHR: Transcripts

• Court Transcripts– Court web site – HUDOC -

http://www.echr.coe.int/echr– Worldlii– Netherlands Institute

•Full text searching use the following connectors: AND•OR •NOT•WITHIN N OF *TRUNCATION•? SINGLE CHARACTER

Reports of Judgments and Decisions (ECHR) on Justis

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EHRR on Westlaw

• UK section of Westlaw includes ECHR judgments

• European Court of Human Rights Reports (includes all court judgments and selected commission decisions)

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ECHR web site

• http://www.echr.coe.int/• Basic Documents and texts of the court• Database of transcripts of judgments and

commission decisions• To go direct to the transcripts database

http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/

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European Convention on Human Rights and additional protocols

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