{"id":365018,"date":"2010-02-25T19:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2010-02-25T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:08:24","slug":"the-echr-is-drowning-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365018","title":{"rendered":"The ECHR is Drowning in Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard that the docket for the European Court of Human Rights is out of control, but\u00a0a backlog of 120,000* cases<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.nrc.nl\/international\/Features\/article2491422.ece\/European_court_could_succumb_to_deluge_of_cases\"> is a little ridiculous<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is no doubt about the seriousness of the situation in Strasbourg. Jean-Paul Costa, president of the European Court of Human Rights, has referred to it as extremely disturbing. The parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, which is responsible for the institution, has said the court threatens to suffocate.<\/p>\n<p>A count late last year showed &#8216;Strasbourg&#8217; has a backlog of over 119,300 cases, all complaints from European citizens who feel their human rights have been in some way violated. They did not get their way in their home countries and decided to plead their case at a higher level. Strasbourg is their last resort.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"20\" width=\"240\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"20\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reforms are planned. But given the size of the backlog, serious reforms are needed.<\/p>\n<p>*Corrected from original post, which said &#8220;140,000&#8243;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku I&#8217;ve heard that the docket for the European Court of Human Rights is out of control, but\u00a0a backlog of 120,000* cases is a little ridiculous. There is no doubt about the seriousness of the situation in Strasbourg. Jean-Paul Costa, president of the European Court of Human Rights, has referred to it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}