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AUTHOR
Giulia Borgna
REATI DI DURATA E IRRETROATTVITA’ DELLA LEGGE PENALE: LA CORTE DI STRASBURGO FISSA I LIMITI ALL’APPLICAZIONE DELLO JUS SUPERVENIENS Nota a Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo, Rohlena c. Repubblica Ceca [GC], ricorso n. 59552/08, sentenza 27 gennaio 2015
La prassi delle decisioni di inammissibilità della Corte europea al vaglio del Comitato ONU dei diritti umani: rischio di un ‘cortocircuito’ fra i due sistemi di protezione?
The case-overload and the backlog crisis at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) are well-known issues in Strasbourg, which risk to clog the Court’s activity to a point where they seri-ously threaten the effectiveness and expediency of the entire ECHR system. To fight these serious threats, Protocol no. 14 introduced a new filtering mechanism in order to reduce backlog while pursuing expediency. However, expediency comes at a price, precisely that of a possible loss of quality of the application process and transparency of judicial reasoning. This risk has been bluntly highlighted, in all its adverse effects, by the Human Rights Committee (HRC). In the Achabal case, the HRC found a vi…