In a Grand Chamber judgment handed down on Friday 28 April, the European Court of Human Rights definitively confirms its “just satisfaction” jurisdiction in an interstate case between Georgia and the Russian Federation, despite Russia’s exclusion in March 2022 after the start of the war in Ukraine.
“The respondent government’s (Russia’s)failure to cooperate does not constitute an obstacle”, the judgment said.
The case tried in January 2021 concerns victims of the...