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Human Rights

The firm’s principal area of practice

Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights is a highly specialised field. Every year, a very large proportion of the applications lodged with the Court do not get past the admissibility stage. A case of real importance at national level may therefore never be examined on the merits in Strasbourg if it is not presented in accordance with the particular requirements of the Convention and of the procedure before the Court.

Expertise before the Court

Just Rights Europe is a law firm with a European and international focus, specialising in litigation before the European Court of Human Rights. Our work begins once the relevant domestic remedies have been exhausted: we assess the admissibility of the case, identify potential violations, devise the strategy for Strasbourg and, where the conditions are met, represent the client before the Court.

Articles of the Convention

The firm’s cases arise principally under the following Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights:

The full text of the European Convention on Human Rights may be consulted in the official document below.

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Domestic remedies exhausted?

After a final decision of the highest national court, a case may be submitted to us directly for an assessment under the Convention.

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