Public Law Studies Quarterly

The Legal Challenges of Collective Proceedings to Human Rights Claims in the European Court of Human Rights

Document Type : Article

Authors

Mahdi Haddadi 1
Hosein Rezaian Kochi 2

1 Associate Prof., Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tehran College of Farabi, Qom, Iran

2 Ph.D. Student in International Law, Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tehran College of Farabi, Qom, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jplsq.2019.283194.2036
Abstract
Human rights violations include a large number of victims, often with similar injuries. This issue concerns the European Court of Human Rights with the issue of repetitive applications and excessive length of proceedings. The use of Pilot-Judgment Procedure and Class Action are solutions that the Court has been taken to ensure the speed of the trial. The main purpose of this paper is to examine these two methods of dealing with human rights violations and existing judicial procedures concerning them. Finally, it will be determined that these two methods of treatment will allow the Court to have a quick and effective hearing, but the manner in which the European Court of Human Rights uses them and the ambiguities regarding in way they are applied, violate the right of individual petition.

Keywords

European Court of Human Rights
Pilot-Judgment Procedure
Class Action
Human Rights Violations
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Public Law Studies Quarterly
Volume 51, Issue 4
Winter 2022
Winter 2022
Pages 1289-1307

  • Receive Date 09 June 2019
  • Revise Date 18 September 2019
  • Accept Date 20 October 2019

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