Адвокатско бюро "Милушев"

A limited cassation review introduced by the new Civil Code of Procedure, impossibility to approach the Constitutional Court and impossibility to receive just compensation are the reasons for more and more proceedings to be instituted against the state by local and foreign persons.

What is ACHR

The European Court of Human Rights is an institution administering justice at the Council of Europe., set up by the European Convention on Human Rights of 1950. The headquarters are in Strasbourg, France.

The court is a body at the Council of Europe and its jurisdiction spreads over all the member-countries of the Council of Europe which have ratified the European Convention of Human Rights and includes all the issues related to the enforcement of the Convention in connection with international cases and complaints of separate persons.

The Court accepts complaints by any person, non- governmental organization or group of persons who claim to be victims of breach of rights imposed by any of the high negotiating parties of the rights announced in the Convention or the protocols to it.

Admissibility

The court may read a case only after implementing all the inner legal instruments for protection in accordance with the acknowledged norms of international law and within 6 months from the date on which the national instance has reached decision.

Which issues are within the competence of the Court

Before the European Court of Human Rights basic and irrevocable rights are protected such as:

• right to life
• right to liberty and security
• right of just trial
• right of privacy and marriage
• freedom of thought, conscience and religion
• freedom of speech
• freedom of meeting and association