ECHR Case Files

1. Introduction
1.1 Outline
1.2 The cases
1.2.1 Jaloud v the Netherlands
1.2.2 S.A.S. v France

2. The procedures
2.1 Introduction to the Court’s organisation and procedure
2.1.1 The Court’s organisation
2.1.2 The Court’s procedure
2.2 Rules for specific steps in the application procedure
2.2.1 Exhaustion of domestic remedies
2.2.2 The application
2.2.3 Administrative disposal of the application
2.2.4 Registration of the application
2.2.5 Allocation of the application to a judicial formation (including relinquishment)
2.2.6 Examination of the application by a judicial formation
2.2.7 Communication of the application to the respondent Government
2.2.8 Legal aid
2.2.9 Written observations of the respondent Government
2.2.10 Written observations of the applicant and claim for just satisfaction
2.2.11 Further written observations of the respondent Government
2.2.12 Interim measure
2.2.13 Friendly settlement
2.2.14 Unilateral declaration
2.2.15 Hearing
2.2.16 Decision or judgment
2.2.17 Referral to the Grand Chamber
2.3 General rules for the application procedure
2.3.1 Representation of the applicant
2.3.2 Protection of the applicant
2.3.3 Cooperation and correspondence with the Court
2.3.4 Publicity and anonymity
2.3.5 Use of languages
2.3.6 Priority policy
2.3.7 Joinder and simultaneous examination of the application
2.3.8 State of proceedings search engine
2.4 Rules for third-party interventions
2.4.1 Request for leave to intervene
2.4.2 The intervention

3. The case file of the lawyer
3.1 Documents in the application procedure
3.1.1 Exhaustion of domestic remedies
- Document: Court of Appeal decision (extracts)
3.1.2 The application
- Document: Application form (neither fully original letter nor original form)
- Document: Acknowledgment receipt application form
3.1.3 Communication of the application to the respondent Government
- Document: Notification statement of facts and questions etc.
3.1.4 Written observations of the respondent Government
- Document: Notification written observations of the Netherlands
3.1.5 Written observations and claim for just satisfaction of the applicant
- Document: Request extension deadline
- Document: Answer request extension deadline
- Document: Written observations and claim for just satisfaction
- Document: Acknowledgment receipt written observations and claim for just satisfaction
3.1.6 Further written observations of the respondent Government
- Document: Notification further written observations of the Netherlands
3.1.7 Relinquishment
- Document: Notification intention to relinquish
- Document: Notification decision to relinquish
- Document: Notification composition Grand Chamber and etc.
3.1.8 Hearing
- Document: Invitation to address issues in observations
- Document: Further written observations
- Document: Acknowledgment further written observations
- Document: Notification written observations on claim for just satisfaction of the Netherlands
- Document: Authority form (cover letter original; form not original)
- Document: Acknowledgment receipt authority form
- Document: Pleading notes (cover letter only)
3.1.9 Judgment
- Document: Judgment (extract)
3.2 Additional documents in the application procedure in other cases
3.2.1 Administrative disposal of the application
- Document: Notification administrative disposal
3.2.2 Legal aid
- Document: Declaration of applicant’s means
- Document: Directions for completing your declaration of means
- Document: Legal aid rates
- Document: Legal aid: practical guide
- Document: List of national bar associations and authorities competent to certify indigence (not the original)
3.2.3 Priority policy and interim measure
- Document: Request interim measure and prioritisation
3.2.4 Unilateral declaration
- Document: Unilateral declaration of the Netherlands
- Document: Judgment (extracts)
3.2.5 Decision
- Document: Single-judge decision

4. The case file of the intervener
4.1 Request for leave to interne
- Document: Request for leave to intervene
- Document: Answer request for leave to intervene (not original)
4.2 The intervention
- Document: Written observations
- Document: Request for additional written observations
- Document: Answer request for additional written observations
4.3 Judgment
- Document: Judgment (extracts)