Friday, January 29, 2010

Strasbourg Court's Domestic Impact to be Decided

The Constitutional Court started hearings in a case that presents the issue of whether a decision of the European Court of Human Rights concerning a case decided Russia's courts of general jurisdiction can be a basis for mandatory reopening of the case. A lawyer representing the Presidential administration argued to the Court that giving ECHR decisions such effect would be "interference in the national legal system," while Russia's representative to the ECHR wrote to the Court that it would facilitate Russia's fulfillment of its international obligations.
www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1312248&print=true

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