Handbook on the European Convention on Human Rights

Part 1
1 Origin, Development and Binding Nature of the Convention

Part 2 Admissibility Conditions of an Application
2 Overview of the Admissibility Conditions
3 Personal, Territorial, Temporal and Subject-Matter Jurisdiction (Article 35 § 3[a] of the Convention)
4 Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies (Article 35 § 1 of the Convention)
5 Compliance with the Time-Limit of Four Months (Article 35 § 1 of the Convention)
6 Substantive Conditions: Manifest Ill-Foundedness and Absence of Significant Disadvantage (Article 35 § 3[a] and [b] of the Convention)

Part 3 European Court of Human Rights
7 The Court’s Organisation
8 Proceedings before the Court
9 Inter-State Applications (Article 33 of the Convention)
10 Judgments of the Court
11 Principles of the Interpretation and Application of the Substantive Guarantees of the Convention and Its Protocols

Part 4 Substantive Guarantees of the Convention
12 Right to Life (Article 2 of the Convention)
13 Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Article 3 of the Convention)
14 Prohibition of Forced Labour (Article 4 of the Convention)
15 Conditions of Deprivation of Liberty (Article 5 of the Convention)
16 Guarantees of a Fair Trial (Article 6 of the Convention) – I Applicability and Scope of the Procedural Rights
17 Guarantees of a Fair Trial (Article 6 of the Convention) – II Requirements as to the Court
18 Guarantees of a Fair Trial (Article 6 of the Convention) – III Public Nature and Length of the Proceedings
19 Guarantees of a Fair Trial (Article 6 of the Convention) – IV Fairness of the Proceedings; Rights of the Defence
20 No Punishment without Law (Article 7 of the Convention)
21 Preliminary Remarks on Articles 8 to 11: Justification of Interferences According to Their Respective Paragraph 2
22 Right to Respect for Private and Family Life, for Home and Correspondence
23 Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion (Article 9 of the Convention)
24 Freedom of Expression (Article 10 of the Convention)
25 Freedom of Assembly and Association (Article 11 of the Convention)
26 Right to Marry (Article 12 of the Convention)
27 Right to an Effective Remedy (Article 13 of the Convention)
28 Prohibition of Discrimination (Article 14 of the Convention)

Part 5 Substantive Guarantees of the Protocols to the Convention
29 Guarantees of the (1st) Additional Protocol
30 Guarantees of the 4th Protocol
31 Prohibition of the Death Penalty (6th and 13th Protocols)
32 Guarantees of the 7th Protocol
33 General Prohibition of Discrimination (12th Protocol)

Part 6
34 Qualifications of the Substantive Rights of the Convention and Its Protocols (Article 15–18)\

Conclusions

Annex – Texts of the Convention and Its Protocols
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Rome, 4.XI.1950
Protocol Additional to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Paris, 20.III.1952
Protocol No. 4 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Securing Certain Rights and Freedoms Other Than Those Already Included in the Convention and in the First Protocol Thereto
Strasbourg, 16.IX.1963
Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the Abolition of the Death Penalty
Strasbourg, 28.IV.1983
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Strasbourg, 22.XI.1984
Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Rome, 4.XI.2000
Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the Abolition of the Death Penalty in All Circumstances
Vilnius, 3.V.2002
Protocol No. 16 to the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Strasbourg, 2.X.2013
Author: Mark E. Villiger