IS THE STRASBOURG COURT REALLY ACCOUNTABLE TOWARDS ITS ENDS?
IS THE STRASBOURG COURT REALLY ACCOUNTABLE TOWARDS ITS ENDS?

Summary/Abstract: The European Court of Human Rights (also known as “the Strasbourg Court”) is an international judicial body aimed at prosecuting, under certain circumstances, possible violations by States parties of human rights established under the European Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its respective Protocols. One of the rights established by the Convention, under its article 6, is related to the fair trial, by a court functioning under the dispositions of the State’s law. Despite the general impression, left by the Convention, by judging some of its procedures, cases and actions with regard to the query rejection process and transparency towards individuals, one might conclude that the Court is not really acting in favor and on behalf of those individuals as it does not justify the rejection decision, otherwise than stating that the request did not meet the criteria set under article 34 and 35.

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