Compendium of case law of the European Court of Human Rights on the death penalty and extrajudicial execution

Jeremy McBride

• Publisher: Council of Europe
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9789287192547
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Diritti umani

Ensuring respect for one of the fundamental values of humanity in our society through the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human RightsThe compendium's aim is to assist national judges, prosecutors andlawyers from the 46 member states of the Council of Europe to dealwith extradition or deportation cases when there is a risk of thedeath penalty being imposed in third countries or of extrajudicialexecution. It also aims at enabling legal professionals from countrieswhere the death penalty still exists to develop arguments basedupon the reasoning of the case law of the European Court of HumanRights. It contains relevant extracts from the Court's case law, structured in a user-friendly way.

Jeremy McBride is a Barrister at Monckton Chambers, London, specialising in cases before the European Court of Human Rights andthe United Nations Human Rights Committee. He is President of theExpert Council on NGO Law of the Council of Europe's Conferenceof International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs), a formermember and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the EuropeanUnion's Fundamental Rights Agency, and co-founder and Chair ofthe International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights(INTERIGHTS).