Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights

GD partner Alexandre Prezanti provides expert advice to lawyers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and victims of human rights violations, on how to seek redress before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). 

The European Court of Human Rights is a court of last resort for victims of human rights abuses in Europe. The Court receives tens of thousands of applicants each year, however only a fraction of these are admitted for consideration. The majority of applicants fail to satisfy the stringent admissibility criteria, which require applications to exhaust all available domestic remedies before applying to the Strasbourg Court.

Prezanti provides trainings, mentoring and expert advice on litigation strategy to ensure case admissibility and success before the ECtHR. Working with lawyers, NGOs and victims from across Europe, Prezanti helps to shape domestic litigation, documentation of human rights violations and to drafts applications and other pleadings before the ECtHR. Some notable cases include: Tagayeva and Others v. Russia (the Beslan seige case in which the ECtHR found that Russia violated the right to life during its heavy-handed anti-terrorism operation); Crimean Tatar cases from Crimea and protest crackdown cases from Azerbaijan.