The Court’s judicial year was formally opened on Friday 27 January 2012. Some 200 leading judicial figures from across Europe were invited to participate in a seminar on the topic “How to ensure greater involvement of national courts in the Convention system?”

The Court held its annual press conference on Thursday 26 January 2012. On this occasion, Nicolas Bratza, the President of the Court, presented a summary of the Court’s activities and its statistics for 2011. He said that the European governments must assume their part of the shared responsibility for the protection of human rights across the continent. In connection with this press conference, the Court released its Annual Report 2011 and 2011 Facts and Figures. On 27 January the Court also released a new video on admissibility conditions for cases coming before it. 

For a summary of the January 2012 events, see Antoine Buyse’s ECHR Blog.