The Annual Report of the European Court of Human Rights provides information on the organisation, activities and case-law of the Court.
In 2019 the Court celebrated its 60th anniversary. This Report contains a foreword by the President, an outline of the events that marked the year, the speeches delivered at the opening of the judicial year and the Jurisconsult’s overview of the main developments in the case-law. The Report summarises the Court’s recent procedural innovations and provides an update on its expanding knowledgesharing and outreach programmes, notably the Superior Courts Network. Statistical data on the Court’s workload and output are also included.
FOREWORD SPEECHES CASE-LAW OVERVIEW
Jurisdiction and admissibility
“Core” rights
Procedural rights
Other rights and freedoms
Advisory opinions (Article 1 of Protocol No. 16)
Just satisfaction (Article 41)
Binding force and execution of judgments (Article 46)
Other Convention provisions
SUPERIOR COURTS NETWORK BRINGING THE CONVENTION HOME
Dissemination of the Court’s case-law
Other publications and information tools
Training of legal professionals
General outreach
Key cases
JUDICIAL ACTIVITIES
Composition of the Court
Composition of the Sections
The plenary Court
PROCEDURAL INNOVATIONS
Non-contentious phase
Immediate simplified communication procedure (IMSI)
STATISTICS
Pending cases (by State)
Allocated applications (2009-19)
Judgments (2009-19)
Pending cases (main States)
Court’s workload
Decided applications
Violations by subject matter
Allocated applications by State and by population (2016-19)
Violations by Article and by State (2019)
Violations by Article and by State (1959-2019)
THE YEAR IN PICTURES