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Constitutional Court and ECtHR Applications

OVERVIEW

Individual applications to the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights are subsidiary review mechanisms available to persons alleging that public power has violated their fundamental rights. Admissibility depends on exhaustion of domestic remedies, compliance with time limits, victim status and the claim not being manifestly ill-founded.

SERVICE SCOPE

Principal service areas

  1. 01

    Classifying the alleged violation under constitutional and Convention rights

  2. 02

    Identifying effective domestic remedies and the date on which they were exhausted

  3. 03

    Preparing the Constitutional Court application form, statement of facts and legal grounds

  4. 04

    Preparing the European Court of Human Rights application form and supporting documents

  5. 05

    Reviewing the application deadline, victim status and significant-disadvantage criterion

  6. 06

    Interim-measure requests and urgent applications concerning life and physical integrity

  7. 07

    Submitting observations on communications at the admissibility and merits stages

  8. 08

    Retrial, compensation and enforcement following a finding of a violation