Strasbourg, 31/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - At his annual press conference on Thursday 30 January, the president of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Dean Spielmann of Luxembourg, said that 2013 had been a remarkable year.
The Council of Europe's flagship body has published figures that confirm the trend, begun in 2012, after years of exponential rise in cases waiting to be heard by the court. Spielmann said that the number of pending cases has now fallen below the symbolic threshold...