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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9102

5 January 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/human rights
European Court of Human Rights is saturated with applications

Brussels, 04/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - According to a study made public end December, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has fallen victim to its own success and is now finding it difficult to deal with the every-growing workload. The current system is stretched to its limit and must therefore be changed, perhaps radically, states the paper prepared by a group of lawyers headed by Lord Woolf, on behalf of the Council of Europe. With 44,100 new applications filed in 2004...

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