Case Digests: Recent Remedies Decisions from the European Court of Human Rights

For most of its existence the European Court of Human Rights has left the business of identifying and overseeing the corrective measures required by its judgments to another authority—the Council of Ministers (the executive body of the 47-member Council of Europe).

Over the last decade, however, this has begun to change; the court has become increasingly comfortable recommending, and in some cases ordering, the remedial measures that governments need to take to address breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights. 

This digest sets out summaries of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights with regard to awards of individual and general measures under Article 46 from January 2013 to December 2014.