On the 26th of January President Raimondi addressed the European Court of Human Rights at the annual press conference and reported that the volume of incoming cases, after falling over the previous two years, had considerably increased.
The President emphasized the importance of effective implementation of the Convention at national level, to ensure that the principle of subsidiarity fully serve its purpose. While acknowledging the difficult situation in Turkey, following the attempted coup d’etat of July 2016, he emphasized the importance of the most recent national measures to allow judicial oversight of decisions relating to the state of emergency, underlying the Council of Europe’s key role played in that context, that maintained an ongoing dialogue with the Turkish authorities.
By the end of 2016, the number of pending cases stood at 79,750, up 23% compared to the end of 2015, when there were 64,850 applications pending.
President Raimondi praised Italy as demonstration of a state for which the number of cases has been more than halved in two and a half years. This is the result of the Italian Government’s policy, firstly in response to the Torreggiani pilot judgment, which concerned prison overcrowding, and secondly, with regard to the length of proceedings.
