Round table on “The setting up of effective domestic remedies to challenge conditions of detention”
This activity was funded by the Human Rights Trust Fund.
Strasbourg, 8-9 July 2014
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Judges, penitentiary authorities and ministry officials met in Strasbourg on 8 and 9 July 2014 to discuss the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning conditions of detention.
The round table focused on the effective preventive and compensatory domestic remedies which should be in place to challenge conditions of detention and the interaction between two remedies. It aimed at exchanging experience among member states together with different Council of Europe experts and at identifying good practices with regard to the setting up and the implementation of such remedies.
The round table was organised in the framework of the HRTF 18 Project on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning conditions of detention and effective remedies to challenge these conditions, financed by the Human Rights Trust Fund.
Key Documents
Presentations
- Christos Giakoumopoulos: Opening speech (French only)
- Natalia Kobylarz-Lerner: Effective Remedies in Conditions of Detention Cases – the ECHR Requirements
- Jim McManus: Preventive Remedies and Possible Challenges
- Jean-Pierre Restellini: Standards of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment relating to detention
- Luiza Sałapa: The Polish experience concerning conditions of detention and remedies to challenge these conditions
- Alina Barbu: The preventive remedy concerning conditions of detention in Romania: "From the modern regulatory framework - to the effective domestic case-law"
- Eric Senna: The French experience concerning the preventive remedy of persons detained for contesting their detention conditions (French only)
- Bogdan Zimnenko: Preventive remedies and the Russian experience
- Joan-Miquel Rascagneres: Compensatory remedy and reduction of sentence (French only)
- Lilian Apostol: Compensatory remedies and the Moldovan experience