Mr. Raffaele Sabato is the new Italian judge at the European Court of Human Rights. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected him on the first ballot on January, 22, during the first part session of 2019. His possible nomination was previously examined by the Assembly’ ad hoc Commission for the election of judges, which indicated him as the best candidate). Following his appointment as a judge in 1991, he has exercised his functions for more than twenty years in the civil and criminal area and is currently a justice in the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation. He has been a judicial trainer at national and international level, a member of the Board of Directors of the Superior Council of Magistracy from 2012 to 2015 and he is currently a member of the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) of the Council of Europe.
Mr. Sabato is the sixth Italian judge at the Court of Strasbourg, preceded by excellent personalities of the likes of Giorgio Pallieri, Carlo Russo, Benedetto Conforti, Vladimiro Zagrebelsky e Guido Raimondi. The latter, President of the Court of Strasbourg since 2015, will conclude his nine-year mandate in May this year, letting Mr. Sabato take over the task to represent the founding principles and values of the Convention on Human Rights and to ensure the respect of the related obligations in order to guarantee the uniform implementation of the judgments aiming at safeguarding the respect of democratic prerogatives.
