IN FACTS AND FIGURES 2010

THE EUROPEANCOURTOF HUMANRIGHTS

THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMANRIGHTSIN FACTSAND FIGURES

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Facts and figures

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Court’s statistics for 2010

Pending allocated cases

Approximately 139,650 applications were pending before a judicial formation on 1  January 2011. More than half of these applications had been lodged against one of four countries: Russia, Turkey, Romania or Ukraine.

on 1 January 2011

28,1 %

6,34 %

2.5%

8.6%

7.5%

7.3%

4.6%

2.8%

2.5%

2.5%

Russia

Turkey

Romania

Ukraine

Italy

Poland

Moldova

Bulgaria

Serbia

Slovenia

Other States

10.9%

28.9%

22.1%

European Court of Human Rights

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Violation judgments by State

In 2010, more than a third of the judgments delivered by the Court concerned four of the Council of Europe’s forty-seven member States: Turkey (278 judgments), Russia (217 judgments), Romania (143 judgments) and Ukraine (109 judgments). Of the total number of judgments it has delivered in 2010, in over 85% of cases the Court has found at least one violation of the Convention by the respondent State.

Year 2011

Turkey

Russia

Romania

Ukraine

Poland

Other States

18.55%

14.48%

7.27%

9.54%

7.14%

43.03%

Since it was established in 1959, near the half of the judgments delivered by the Court concerned four member States: Turkey, Italy, Russia and Poland.

Facts and figures

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Applications allocated to a judicial formation

Applications which are allocated to a judicial formation are those for which the Court has received a correctly completed form, accompanied by copies of relevant documents. These applications will be examined by a Committee or by a Chamber of the Court. These figures do not include applications which are at the pre-judicial stage (incomplete case file).

on 1 January 2011

45,000

8,400 10,50013,800

28,200 27,200

32,50035,400

39,40041,700

49,900

57,100

1955-1998

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

70,000

60,000

50,000

40,000

30,000

20,000

10,000

0

61,300

European Court of Human Rights

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Judgments delivered by the Court

Since the reform of the Convention system on 1 November 1998, there has been a considerable increase in the Court’s caseload. Barely ten years after the reform, the Court delivered its 10,000th judgment. Its output is such that more than 93% of the Court’s judgments since its creation in 1959 have been delivered between 1998 and 2010.

In recent years the Court has concentrated on examining complex cases and has decided to join certain applications which raise similar legal questions so that it can consider them jointly. Thus, although the number of judgments delivered each year is not increasing as rapidly as in the past, the Court has examined more applications.

In 2010, the Court delivered 1,499 judgments concerning 2,607 applications. A total of 41,183 applications were decided in 2010.

on 1 January 2011

1959-1998

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

1,105

837

177

695

888844

703 718

1,560 1,503 1,5431,625

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

0

1,499

Facts and figures

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Subject-matter of the Court’s violation judgments in 2010

More than a third of the judgments in which the Court found a violation included a violation of Article 6, whether on account of the fairness or the length of the proceedings. Furthermore, 52% of violations found by the Court concern Article 6 and Article 5 (Right to liberty and security).

Lastly, more than 20% of violations found by the Court concern the right to life or the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment (Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention).

Year 2010

Right to an effective remedy (Art. 13)

Right to liberty and security (Art. 5)

Protection of property (P1-1)

Right to life (Art. 2)

Right to a fair trial (Art. 6)

Other violations

8.66%

14.24%

9.32%

14.75%

5.52%

37.66%

9.85%

Prohibition of torture andinhuman or degrading treatment (Art. 3)

European Court of Human Rights

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Throughput of applications in 2010

Applications declared inadmissible or struck out

Applications allocated to a judicial formation

Total number of applications decided

Application in which judgments delivered

Malta 23 14 4 18Moldova 945 434 29 463Monaco 13 7 0 7Montenegro 305 45 2 47Netherlands 727 299 4 303Norway 86 76 1 77Poland 5 777 3 924 108 4 032Portugal 186 116 35 151Romania 5 992 3 650 150 3 800Russia 14 309 6 911 430 7 341San Marino 4 5 0 5Serbia 1 566 1 195 38 1 233Slovakia 568 664 41 705Slovenia 837 581 6 587Spain 689 454 16 470Sweden 901 283 6 289Switzerland 368 305 11 316

422 456 15 471Turkey 5 821 3 296 501 3 797Ukraine 3 962 3 311 119 3 430United Kingdom 2 766 1 175 23 1 198

Total of applications 61 307 38 576 2 607 41 183

Albania 96 20 9 29Andorra 8 3 0 3Armenia 197 81 5 86Austria 439 510 19 529Azerbaijan 337 167 29 190Belgium 304 69 4 73Bosnia Herzegovina 658 1 393 1 1 394Bulgaria 1 348 525 84 609Croatia 992 357 21 378Czech Republic 606 1 367 12 1 379Cyprus 118 57 3 60Denmark 96 36 0 36Estonia 265 183 3 186Finland 377 214 17 231France 1 619 1 367 44 1 411Georgia 375 1 608 4 1 612Germany 1 683 1 544 47 1 591Greece 585 383 60 443Hungary 436 240 21 261Iceland 15 8 1 9Ireland 62 76 2 78Italy 3 852 687 668 1 355Latvia 271 273 4 277Liechtenstein 15 15 1 16Lithuania 242 153 8 161Luxembourg 44 39 7 46

2010 2010 2010 2010

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Violations by Article and by country

2010

Other Article

s of the Conv

ention

Right not to

be tried or pu

nished twice

Right to free

elections

Right to edu

cation

Protection of

property

Prohibition o

f discriminat

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Right to an e

ffective reme

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Right to mar

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Freedom of a

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association

Freedom of e

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Right to resp

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law

No punishm

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law

Non executio

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Length of pro

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Right to a fa

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Right to libe

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Prohibition o

f slavery / fo

rced labour

Lack of effec

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ation

Inhuman or d

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Prohibition o

f torture

Lack of effec

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ation

Right to life

- deprivation

of life

Other judgm

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Judgments fi

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Judgments fi

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Total numb

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Other Article

s of the Conv

ention

Right not to

be tried or pu

nished twice

Right to free

elections

Right to edu

cation

Protection of

property

Prohibition o

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Right to an e

ffective reme

dy

Right to mar

ry

Freedom of a

ssembly and

association

Freedom of e

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Freedom of t

hought, cons

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ligion

Right to resp

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law

No punishm

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law

Non executio

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Length of pro

ceedings

Right to a fa

ir trial

Right to libe

rty and secu

rity

Prohibition o

f slavery / fo

rced labour

Lack of effec

tive investig

ation

Inhuman or d

egrading tre

atment

Prohibition o

f torture

Lack of effec

tive investig

ation

Right to life

- deprivation

of life

Other judgm

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Friendly sett

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Judgments fi

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Judgments fi

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Total numb

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75

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92

41

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163

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6910

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57

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314

631

38

271

181

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2121

56

81

23

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31

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91

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296

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229

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5653

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62

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172

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2121

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114

31

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21

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Italy

9861

334

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43

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Violations by Article and by country

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Other Article

s of the Conv

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Right not to

be tried or pu

nished twice

Right to free

elections

Right to edu

cation

Protection of

property

Prohibition o

f discriminat

ion

Right to an e

ffective reme

dy

Right to mar

ry

Freedom of a

ssembly and

association

Freedom of e

xpression

Freedom of t

hought, cons

cience and re

ligion

Right to resp

ect for privat

e and family

law

No punishm

ent without

law

Non executio

n

Length of pro

ceedings

Right to a fa

ir trial

Right to libe

rty and secu

rity

Prohibition o

f slavery / fo

rced labour

Lack of effec

tive investig

ation

Inhuman or d

egrading tre

atment

Prohibition o

f torture

Lack of effec

tive investig

ation

Right to life

- deprivation

of life

Other judgm

ents**

Friendly sett

lements / Str

iking out ju

dgments

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nding no vi

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67

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118

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141

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89

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109

107

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224

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