Returning the Protection of Human Rights to Where They Belong, At Home

摘要

This article seeks to explain and discuss the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) at national level. It critically evaluates the Recommendations adopted by the Committee of Ministers in May 2004 in an attempt to improve the implementation of the ECHR in the domestic legal orders of the member states of the Council of Europe. In addition, it considers the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Finally, this article critically examines the novel 'pilot judgment procedure' developed by the ECtHR in order to tackle the phenomenon of 'repetitive' or 'clone' cases.