Reform of the European Court of Human Rights
Reform of the European Court of Human Rights

Author(s): Stefania Kolarz
Subject(s): Politics, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Politics and law, Court case
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: ECHR; human rights; reform;
Summary/Abstract: Protocol No. 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), which entered into force on 1 August, was to improve the functioning of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), including by accelerating the examination of cases. However, some of the changes made by it may have the opposite effect. The protocol does not solve the problem of overloading the ECtHR with incoming complaints. The reform should be thus continued by, for example, more effective resolution by states of systemic problems identified by the ECtHR.

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