The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, which oversees the implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments, closed a record number of 3,691 cases last year, leading to a 24% decrease in the total number of outstanding cases.
There were 7,584 pending cases at the end of 2017, compared to around 11,000 cases three years earlier. 1,379 of the cases pending at the end of last year were leading cases – highlighting important structural problems – whereas the others were mainly repetitive cases.
These are some of the main findings from the Committee of Ministers’ annual report for 2017 on the supervision of the execution of judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.
