Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE)’s Annual Report – 2017
Day: April 14, 2018
The ENCJ Strategic Objectives 2018-2021 & Workplan
In 2014, the ENCJ celebrated its 10th anniversary. At the General assembly in Rome, the 2014-2018 Strategic and Action plan was adopted. The plan stated that after 10 years of producing a number of important documents containing guidelines, standards and statements of best practices the time had come to focus on strengthening the position of the ENCJ and […]
Continued Reform of the European Court of Human Rights Convention System – Better balance, improved Protection – Speech by Mr Guido Raimondi, President of the European Court of Human Rights, Copenhagen, 11 – 13 April 2018
A high-level conference on the reform of the Convention system was held in Copenhagen on 12 and 13 April 2018, at the initiative of the Danish Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers. A joint Declaration was adopted at the close of the conference. Speech by the President, Mr Guido Raimondi Copenhagen Declaration More info
Entry into force of Protocol No. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights triggered by the French ratification – 12 April 2018 – Procedure to obtain advisory opinions on questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedoms defined in the Convention, in the context of cases pending before the national courts
France has just ratified Protocol No. 16 to the Convention, thus bringing the instrument into force. Protocol No. 16 will allow the highest courts of the member States of the Council of Europe to request the Court to give advisory opinions on questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and […]
Innovating Business Courts: A European Outlook – Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, 10 July 2018
The Erasmus School of Law of Erasmus University Rotterdam, within the ERC project ‘Building EU Civil Justice’, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law Luxembourg and the Montaigne Centre for Judicial Administration and Conflict Resolution (Utrecht University) will organize on 10 July 2018 a seminar (“Innovating Business Courts: A European Outlook“) on […]
