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Monitoring protection mechanisms / Reports and Publications / 2006 / November

OMCT Handbook Series vol.1

OMCT Handbook Series vol.1

Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights: A Practitioner’s Handbook

  by Uğur Erdal & Hasan Bakırcı With a Preface by Sir Nigel Rodley OMCT 2006 / ISBN 2-88477-110-7 / 374 pp / paperback

The Book

handbook cover This Practitioner’s Handbook is a publication of OMCT’s State Compliance Programme. Its purpose is to provide practical advice to persons wishing to bring a case to the European Court of Human Rights under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. As such, the Handbook contains an accessible but comprehensive treatment of the procedure and practice of the European Court, as well as a detailed analysis of the Court’s jurisprudence in the area of torture and ill-treatment. Because this is an article-specific book, all areas of substance and procedure are discussed in the specific context of the Court’s Article 3 jurisprudence and special emphasis has been placed on providing strategic litigation advice in relation to matters which may pose particular challenges to Article 3 litigants. The Court’s evidential rules, and in particular, the “establishment of facts” and the shifting of the burden of proof in ill-treatment cases, are given careful attention. The meaning and scope of the terms “torture” and “inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” are dealt with extensively, as is the Court’s practice in the area of interim measures, friendly settlement, and just satisfaction. Reference materials such as the Court’s Practice Directions, the Rules of Court, pleadings submitted in precedent cases, a model application and introductory letter based on hypothetical ill-treatment scenarios, have been included in the appendices and Textboxes. This book is available in English, français, Русский and Türkçe.

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Download individual chapters (PDF documents):

  • TABLE OF CONTENTS, LIST OF APPENDICES, NOTE TO READERS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, DISCLAIMER, PREFACE, TABLE OF CASES and INTRODUCTION
  • Part I OVERVIEW OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE, THE COURT, AND ITS PROCEEDINGS
  • Part II ADMISSIBILITY
  • Part III PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COURT
  • Part IV LODGING THE APPLICATION
  • Part V COMMUNICATION OF THE APPLICATION
  • Part VI ADMISSIBILITY DECISIONS
  • Part VII JUST SATISFACTION (Article 41)
  • Part VIII FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT AND STRIKE OUT (Articles 37-38)
  • Part IX THE JUDGMENT AND THE SUBSEQUENT PROCEDURE
  • Part X THE ABSOLUTE NATURE OF THE PROHIBITION AND THE INHERENT OBLIGATIONS OF ARTICLE 3
  • Part XI ESTABLISHMENT OF FACTS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX, ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  • APPENDICES


Material from OMCT’s Handbook Series may be reproduced for educational, training, advocacy and other non-commercial purposes as long as OMCT is fully acknowledged and the volume in question appropriately cited. No part of the Handbook Series may be reproduced for any commercial purpose.

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Date: November 30, 2006
Activity: Monitoring Protection Mechanisms
Type: Reports and Publications

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  • table of contents, list of appendices, note to readers, acknowledgements, disclaimer, preface, table of cases and introduction
    28 pages / 504 KB

  • part i overview of the council of europe, the court, and its proceedings
    44 pages / 532 KB

  • part ii admissibility
    68 pages / 526 KB

  • part iii proceedings before the court
    12 pages / 328 KB

  • part iv lodging the application
    14 pages / 320 KB

  • part v communication of the application
    5 pages / 281 KB

  • part vi admissibility decisions
    7 pages / 285 KB

  • part vii just satisfaction (article 41)
    11 pages / 298 KB

  • part viii friendly settlement and strike out (articles 37-38)
    13 pages / 321 KB

  • part ix the judgment and the subsequent procedure
    7 pages / 314 KB

  • part x the absolute nature of the prohibition and the inherent obligations of article 3
    18 pages / 349 KB

  • part xi establishment of facts
    31 pages / 350 KB

  • bibliography, index, about the authors
    16 pages / 327 KB

  • appendices
    521 pages / 11.55 MB

  • here
    795 pages / 11.37 MB

  • Русский
    770 pages / 13.33 MB

  • türkçe
    324 pages / 3.78 MB

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