Publisher's Synopsis
This work provides a practical guide to the procedures and processes necessary when making a complaint to the European Commission of Human Rights. * Examines in detail the area of legal practice and procedure in the application of the Convention and advises how to formulate a complaint to the ECHR * Review of Protocol II which has fundamentally changed the complaints procedure, and inclusion of the full 'provisional rules of the New Court' * Enlarged precedent section and a range of useful tools for accessing information such as 'complaint flow chart', table of dates of recognition, general information and key addresses * Full text of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights