European Court of Human Rights case-law application at national level: How to enhance subsidiarity
This webinar, organised by the European Lawyers Foundation (ELF) in conjunction with the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), was held on 4 December 2023. It attracted over 425 participants.
After a welcome from the Chair of ELF’s Board of Directors, there was an introduction to the ECtHR and the principle of subsidiarity by Stefan van Raumer, Chair of the CCBE’s Human Rights Committee.
This was followed by a presentation on the updated CCBE guide for lawyers applying before the ECtHR, given by Piers Gardner, Chair of the CCBE’s Permanent Delegation to the ECtHR.
Natalia Brady, from the Registry of the ECtHR, then spoke about the ECtHR’s Knowledge Sharing Platform (ECHR-KS), and there was a final session on the endorsement of ECHR arguments by senior national courts, given by Achilleas Demetriades, a member of the CCBE’s Permanent Delegation to the ECtHR.
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