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Finding legal resources for European Human Rights

European Human Rights

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/dghl/default_en.asp 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

Link through to the Human Rights and Legal affairs.

Links to the institutions including a link to the European Court of Human Rights and the Commissioner for Human Rights

Link to the Treaty Office

Human rights links

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 – guidance in citing the Official Reports or EHRR

ECHR: Transcripts Court Transcripts

Court web site – HUDOC - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr

Worldlii Netherlands Institute

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 click on Case Law - Decisions and Judgments and then the link to HUDOC

Links through to the basic text including the Convention as well as the Case-law (HUDOC). You can also access HUDOC from the link in the top right. Reports section includes annual and activity reports for the court.

Choose which parts of the collections you wish to search. It defaults to judgments only – if you need admissibility decisions (including those made by the Commission before it ceased in 1999) you need to choose decisions as well. You can also filter by other criteria using the left hand menu

If you are looking for a specific case then use the application number (e.g. 24276/94) if you have it. If not use the case title to put the party name. For subject searching then use the Text box.

Analytical information including dates, party names, who the case was referred by, Strasbourg case law cited, keywords, durable URL

Keywords in context – finds your keywords

Delivery options

European Human Rights Caselaw on Westlaw

UK section of Westlaw includes ECHR judgments

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

From the Westlaw UK home page choose the ‘Cases’ option at the top and then choose “Advanced Search” for more options

Using the boxes you can search the full text of the judgment for keywords, for the party names for specific cases or using specific legislation. There is also the option to search for cases that have cited other cases

Full text of the case

Case Analysis has related information including:•List of reports of the case•Summary of the issues•Legislation considered in the judgment•Earlier cases considered in the judgment•Later cases which have considered this judgment•Commentary on the judgment

European Human Rights Case Law on Justis

Official Reports Series A (pre Nov 1998 case law)

usually prefixed with an A or A Series EHCR (post nov 1998 case law) cited

as EHCR Has transcripts as well as reports

Use the top bar and type human rights – then choose human rights cases arrow.

Type in your search term into the box

Transcript

Official reports – old style series A

Official reports – new style