The Annual Report of the European Court of Human Rights provides information on the organisation, activities and case-law of the Court.
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, an overview of the case-law, the year’s judicial activities and the statistical data and tables of violations of Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights by member State.
The Report presents the Court’s recent procedural innovations and provides an update on its knowledge-sharing and outreach programmes, notably the Superior Courts Network.
The Court’s Annual Reports and other materials about the work of the Court and its case-law are available to download from the Court’s website (www.echr.coe.int).
FOREWORD SPEECHES CASE-LAW OVERVIEW
Jurisdiction and admissibility
“Core” rights
Procedural rights
Others rights and freedoms
Other Convention provisions 1
Inter-State cases (Article 33)
Advisory opinions
SHARING CONVENTION KNOWLEDGE
Judicial dialogue
Sharing the knowledge
Training of legal professionals
General outreach
Key cases
JUDICIAL ACTIVITIES
Composition of the Court
Composition of the Sections
The plenary Court
PROCEDURAL INNOVATIONS
Impact cases
Summary-formula judgments and decisions
Protocol No. 15 to the Convention
STATISTICS
Pending cases (by State)
Allocated applications (2011-21)
Judgments (2011-21)
Pending cases (main States)
Court’s workload
Decided applications
Violations by subject matter
Allocated applications by State and by population (2018-21)
Violations by Article and by State (2021)
Violations by Article and by State (1959-2021)
THE YEAR IN PICTURES