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по правам человека
3.1. Порядок обращения в Европейский Суд по правам человека ....106
3.2. Механизм рассмотрения жалоб в Европейском Суде
по правам человека ..........................................................................115
3.3. Решения Европейского Суда по правам человека ........................134
Заключение  ................................................................................................162
Приложение ................................................................................................180
Конвенция о защите прав и основных свобод человека и
Протоколы № 1, 4, 6, 7, 12 и 13 к ней ....................................................199
Список решений Европейского Суда по правам человека
относительно Азербайджана ..................................................................217
Список литературы ..................................................................................220
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CONTENTS
Preface (J.-P. Costa, President of the European Court of
Human Rights – 19.01.2007-03.11.2011)........................................................17
Preface (C. Asgarov, Agent of the Republic of Azerbaijan
before the European Court of Human Rights) .............................................21
Introduction .....................................................................................................20
I Chapter. The European Court of Human Rights as a specialized
in ter national judicial body in the field of the protection
of human rights
1.1. The international legal status of the European Court of
Human Rights.........................................................................................27
1.2. The European Court of Human Rights and other international
human rights institutions: a comparative analysis .................................38
II Chapter.  Contentious and advisory jurisdiction of the  European Court
of Human Rights
2.1. Ratione materiae jurisdiction of the European Court of
Human Rights.........................................................................................67
2.2. Ratione personae jurisdiction of the European Court of
Human Rights.........................................................................................73
2.3. Ratione temporis jurisdiction of the European Court of
Human Rights.........................................................................................80
2.4. Ratione loci jurisdiction of the European Court of
Human Rights.........................................................................................85
2.5. Advisory jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights ............90 
2.6. Jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights and
national law ............................................................................................93
III Chapter.  The mechanism for exercise of jurisdiction
of the European Court of Human Rights
3.1. The procedure for lodging applications with the European
Court of Human Rights ........................................................................106
3.2. The procedure before the European Court of Human Rights...............115
3.3. Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights ...........................134
Conclusions ....................................................................................................162
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Appendix: .......................................................................................................180
Text of the European Convention on Human Rights and
Protocols 1, 4, 6, 7, 12 and 13 thereto...........................................................199
List of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
regarding Azerbaijan ....................................................................................217
Bibliography...................................................................................................220
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PREFACE
I am very happy to make a short contribution to this doctoral thesis that has
as its subject the European Court of Human Rights.
The author has chosen to examine the key institutional and jurisdictional
features of the Court. These are weighty matters that deserve - and repay - deep
and detailed analysis. As an international judicial institution the Court is a cre-
ation of treaty law, having been established by the 1950 European Convention on
Human Rights, and reformed through several protocols to the Convention, most
recently  by  Protocol  No.  14. Alongside  these  formal  changes,  the  Court  has
evolved in what may be called an “organic” fashion. It has, through interpreting
the text of the Convention, derived important powers and competences. These in-
clude the power to indicate binding interim measures to States, and, in the context
of the pilot-judgment procedure, the power to indicate to States the steps to be
taken in response to a finding of a systemic violation of Convention right. The
Court has often affirmed that the Convention is a living instrument; the same can
be said of the Court itself.
In creating the Court, the authors of the Convention gave it real but delim-
ited powers. The author considers the principal limits to the Court’s jurisdiction,
i.e. ratione materiae, personae, temporis and loci. These are far from being merely
technical issues. On the contrary, they form the boundaries beyond which the
Court has no competence to go, and for this reason give rise to intense legal ar-
gument between the parties in some cases brought before the Court. The great
sensitivity of States to this issue has been reflected in the recent Interlaken Dec-
laration on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights (at paragraph 9).
Through his analysis of the procedure and functioning of the Court, and the
impact of its judgments on national law, the author provides valuable guidance to
Azeri legal professionals on the substance and requirements of European Human
Rights law.
While the number of Azeri cases decided by the Court since Azerbaijan rat-
ified the Convention on 15 April 2002 is still quite low, familiarity with the lead-
ing judgments of the Court, irrespective of the respondent State, is vital to acting
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