Institutional Developments and Recent Strasbourg Cases

Monaco became the 46th member of the Council of Europe on 5 October 2004. 1 At the same time Monaco signed the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention). 2 So, in due course, another micro-State will be eligible to nominate a judge to sit on the European Court of Human Rights (Court), leaving Belarus as the only European State not to be a member of the Council of Europe. The President of the European Court of Human Rights, Luzius Wildhaber of Switzerland, was re-elected as President of the Court by his fellow Judges sitting in plenary session 3 on 11 October 2004. 4 This will be President Wildhaber's third term of office. 5 It will be his last term as he is currently 67 years old and all the Judges of the Court must retire when they reach the age of 70. 6 The Judges also re-elected Christos...

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