1. Bodleian Law Library
European Human Rights
Finding legal resources for European Human
Rights

2. Council of Europe -
http://www.coe.int
 Council of Europe Treaties
http://conventions.coe.int
 Directorate General of Human Rights @
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/default_en.asp
documents and news organised by subject
 Commissioner for Human Rights @
http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/
 European Court of Human Rights -
http://www.echr.coe.int/echr
 Judgments and decisions on Westlaw, Justis, HUDOC,
Worldlii

3. Link through to the Human Rights and
Legal affairs.
Links to the institutions including a
link to the European Court of
Human Rights and the
Commissioner for Human Rights
Link to the Treaty Office

4. Human rights links

5. European Court of Human Rights:
Judgments
 Official Reports
 Before 1 Nov 1998 known as Series A and numbered
consecutively
e.g. Plattform ‘Ärtze für das Leben’ v Austria (App no
10126/82) (1988) Series A no 139
 After 1 Nov 1998 - Renamed Reports of Judgments and
Decisions (cited ECHR)
e.g. Osman v UK (App no 23452/94)
ECHR 1998-VIII 3124
Available in print at Internat 121 and
online on Justis
 European Human Rights Reports (EHRR)
 e.g. Young, James and Webster v UK (App no 7601/76)
(1982) 4 EHRR 38
 Available in print at Internat 150 E60 on
Westlaw
 OSCOLA – guidance in citing the Official Reports or

6. ECHR: Transcripts
 Court Transcripts
 Court web site – HUDOC -
http://www.echr.coe.int/echr
Worldlii
 Netherlands Institute

7. ECHR web site
 http://www.echr.coe.int/
 Basic Documents and texts of the
court
 Database of transcripts of judgments
and commission decisions
 To go direct to the transcripts
database click on Case Law -
Decisions and Judgments and then
the link to HUDOC

8. Links through to the basic
text including the
Convention as well as the
Case-law (HUDOC). You
can also access HUDOC
from the link in the top right.
Reports section includes
annual and activity reports
for the court.

9. If you are looking for a specific case then
use the application number (e.g. 24276/94) if
you have it. If not use the case title to put
the party name. For subject searching then
use the Text box.
Choose which parts of the collections you
wish to search. It defaults to judgments only –
if you need admissibility decisions (including
those made by the Commission before it
ceased in 1999) you need to choose
decisions as well. You can also filter by other
criteria using the left hand menu

10. Keywords in context – finds your keywords
Analytical information
including dates, party
names, who the case was
referred by, Strasbourg case
law cited, keywords, durable
URL
Delivery options

11. European Human Rights
Caselaw on Westlaw
 UK section of Westlaw includes ECHR
judgments
 European Court of Human Rights
Reports (includes all court judgments
and selected commission decisions)

12. From the Westlaw UK home page choose the
‘Cases’ option at the top and then choose “Advanced
Search” for more options

13. Using the boxes you can
search the full text of the
judgment for keywords, the party names for specific
cases or using specific
legislation. There is also option to search for cases
that have cited other cases

14. Full text of the case
Case Analysis has related
information including:
•List of reports of the case
•Summary of the issues
•Legislation considered in the
judgment
•Earlier cases considered in the
judgment
•Later cases which have considered
this judgment
•Commentary on the judgment

15. European Human Rights
Case Law on Justis
 Official Reports
 Series A (pre Nov 1998 case law)
usually prefixed with an A or A Series
 EHCR (post nov 1998 case law) cited
as EHCR
 Has transcripts as well as reports

16. Use the top bar and type
human rights – then choose
human rights cases arrow.
Type in your search term
into the box

17. Official reports – old style series A
Transcript
Official reports – new style