TFL Vsebine / Revija Pravnik

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Evropsko sodišče za človekove pravice (ESČP) letos praznuje 60 let od začetka svojega delovanja, ko je bilo ustanovljeno leta 1959 na podlagi Konvencije o varstvu človekovih pravic in temeljnih svoboščin. Temu jubileju primerno je bil aprila 2019 na Pravni fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani organiziran posvet, pri katerem so sodelovali gostje iz najvišjih državnih institucij in drugi pravni strokovnjaki. Poudarek dogodka je bil na temo varstva človekovih pravic, vladavine prava in skrbi za spoštovanje sodnih odločitev. Države članice morajo spoštovati sodne odločitve ESČP, saj ta izbira ni prepuščena njihovi arbitrarni presoji, čeprav so pred sodiščem zagovarjali nasprotno stališče. Slovenija se tega zaveda, zato ima sprejete številne ukrepe, s katerimi zagotavlja seznanjenost sodnikov z evropsko sodno prakso prek različnih izobraževanj, komunikacijskih kanalov in prevajanja sodnih odločb v slovenski jezik. Bistvo tega je ohranjati zaupanje javnosti v sodstvo in zavedanje o pomenu človekovih pravic. Vendar pa je po drugi strani lahko problematično število zadev, ki jih ESČP prejme v obravnavo, in njihova strokovna obravnava. Na začetku delovanja je bila ESČP vsaka nova zadeva izziv, danes pa je izziv obvladovanje pripada. Število zadev je v zadnjih dvajsetih letih zelo hitro naraščalo in izkazuje neverjetno delo, ki ga opravi 47 sodnikov in drugih članov osebja.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is celebrating 60 years since it was founded in 1959, based on the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. On the occasion of its jubilee, a conference was held in April 2019 at the Faculty of Law of the university of Ljubljana, at which high state representatives and other legal professionals participated. Conference put particular emphasis on the protection of human rights, the rule of law and respect of judicial decisions. Member states have to respect the ECtHR’s decisions and this choice is not in arbitrary hands of states although they argued for the opposite position. Slovenia has realised that and took a broad range of measures aimed at enabling national judges to be adequately informed about the European case law by using communication channels and translating judgements into Slovene. The key point is to keep trust and confidence enjoyed by the judiciary amongst the public, and awareness of the relevance of human rights. On the other side, the number of cases that have been allocated to the ECHR seems to be problematic. Every case represented a challenge at the beginning of the court’s work but nowadays, the main challenge is to control the caseload. The annual caseload has been growing rapidly in the last twenty years and demonstrates a significant work that has been done by 47 European judges and other personnel.

60th Anniversary of the European Court of Human Rights