The Albert Sloman Library

International Human Rights Case-Law : Council of Europe

Subject Resources Links

European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights is the judicial institution that supports the European Convention on Human Rights and is part of the Council of Europe.

The official printed version of reports:

Publications of the European Court of Human Rights Series A, Judgments and Decisions (ECHR A) JC 599.E7

Publications of the European Court of Human Rights Series B, Pleadings, Oral Arguments, and Documents (ECHR B) JC 599.E7

Decisions and Reports of the European Committee on Human Rights (D & R) JC 599.E7

Have merged to form:

Reports of judgments and decisions (Report)/ European Court of Human Rights JC 599.E7

HUDOC http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/search.asp?skin=hudoc-en

Is the official database for The European Court of Human Rights documentation and it holds:
Decisions, Judgments and Advisory Opinions of the Court; Reports of the European Commission of Human Rights (up to 31st October 1999); and Resolutions of the Committee of Ministers.

European Human Rights Reports (EHRR) JC 599.E7 and Online journal

The European Human Rights Reports are a commercial version of reports of the European Court of Human Rights and are published by Sweet & Maxwell. The reports are available in The Library in print or electronic format (see links above). The electronic version is available on the database Westlaw, for a direct link to the EHRR file on Westlaw, click the 'Online journal' link above, and then click 'view the full text on ...'.

ECHR cases are also available in:

International Law Reports KZ 199 .I6

Case Summaries

SIM (Netherlands Institute of Human Rights)

The case-law overview page contains case-law from the treaty bodies, ECHR (summaries), ICTR, UNCOM (concluding comments of the Treaty based bodies), General comments of the treaty bodies and a thesaurus: Human Rights Terminology in International Law: a Thesaurus.

Interrights

A searchable directory of summaries of international case-law from: the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights; Bosnian Human Rights Chamber; ECHR; IACtHR; & UN Treaty Bodies.

European Committee of Social Rights

The mission of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) is to judge that States party are in conformity in law and in practice with the provisions of the European Social Charter.

Collective complaints

International Human Rights Reports JC 571.I6