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Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights

The Court, based in Strasbourg, was set up as a result of the European Convention on Human Rights, created in 1950. This set out a catalogue of civil and political rights and freedoms. It allows people to lodge complaints against States which have signed up to the Convention for alleged violations of those rights. Although founded in 1950, the Court did not actually come into existence until 1959. It gained its present form as a single European Court of Human Rights when Protocol No. 11 to the ECHR took effect in 1998.

The Court is currently made up of 47 judges, one in principle for every State signed up to the Convention. They are elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and serve for six years. Judges sit on the Court as individuals and do not represent their country.  Website: www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home
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Saleck Bardi c. Espagne

24 May 2011 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Algeria - Morocco - Spain

Daoudi c. France

Cet arrêt deviendra définitif dans les conditions définies à l'article 44 § 2 de la Convention. Il peut subir des retouches de forme.

3 December 2009 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations - Country of origin information (COI) - Criminal justice - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Rejected asylum-seekers - Right to family life - Terrorism - Withdrawal of nationality | Countries: Algeria - France

Hadri-Vionnet c. Suisse

Cet arrêt deviendra définitif dans les conditions définies à l'article 44 § 2 de la Convention. Il peut subir des retouches de forme.

14 February 2008 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Right to family life | Countries: Algeria - Switzerland

Aoulmi v. France

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It remains subject to editorial revision.

17 January 2006 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Expulsion - Public health - Right to family life | Countries: Algeria - France

Aoulmi c. France

DÉFINITIF 17/04/2006 Cet arrêt deviendra définitif dans les conditions définies à l?article 44 § 2 de la Convention. Il peut subir des retouches de forme.

17 January 2006 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Expulsion - Public health - Right to family life | Countries: Algeria - France

Boultif c. Suisse

The judgment became final on 2 November 2001.

2 August 2001 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Expulsion - Immigration law - Residence permits / Residency - Right to family life | Countries: Algeria - Switzerland

Boultif v. Switzerland

The judgment became final on 2 November 2001.

2 August 2001 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Expulsion - Immigration law - Residence permits / Residency - Right to family life | Countries: Algeria - Switzerland

Bensaid v. The United Kingdom

6 May 2001 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Effective remedy - Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Mental health - Right to family life | Countries: Algeria - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Dalia c. France

19 February 1998 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Family reunification - Right to family life | Countries: Algeria - France

Dalia v. France

The present judgment is subject to editorial revision before its reproduction in final form in Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1998. order permanently excluding from French territory a convicted Algerian woman who had arrived in France to join her family lawfully resident there mother of an underage child of French nationality Article 8 Government?s preliminary objection of nonexhaustion of domestic remedies dismissed whether applicant had a private and family life at date of court?s refusal to lift exclusion order interference with right to respect for family life and private life whether interference ?in accordance with law? legitimate aim prevention of disorder or crime whether interference ?necessary in democratic society? duty of Contracting States to maintain public order right of Contracting States to control entry and residence of aliens power of state to deport aliens convicted of criminal offences applicant had important links with Algeria and France interference in issue not so drastic as that which may result from expulsion of applicants born in host country or who first went there as young children links formed with child when illegally in France not considered decisive great weight attached to nature of offence underlying prison sentence and exclusion order no violation of Article 8 Article 3 whether suffering sufficiently intense to constitute ?inhuman? or ?degrading? behaviour not established that renewed enforcement of exclusion order would cause applicant suffering of such intensity no violation of Article 3

19 February 1998 | Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Family reunification - Right to family life | Countries: Algeria - France

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