‘It is not its task to act as a Court of fourth instance’ : the case of the ECtHR

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dc.contributor.authorDAHLBERG, Maija
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-27T13:53:24Z
dc.date.available2015-01-27T13:53:24Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionPublished online: 08 January 2015en
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses the so-called fourth instance doctrine under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, focusing in particular on its role in fair trial cases. It attempts to determine when the European Court of Human Rights has given weight to the fourth instance doctrine. Owing to the dynamic and free-range nature of the Court’s interpretative methods, challenges are often mounted on the basis of the fourth instance doctrine and the interpretation of Article 6 (fair trial). This article examines the case law, amounting to forty-four cases, on the provision of fair trials. It divides the role of the fourth instance doctrine into four distinct categories: (1) ‘clear fourth instance nature’; (2) ‘length of proceedings’; (3) ‘balancing approach’; and (4) ‘disregard of fourth instance approach’. Lastly, the article evaluates whether or not the application of strict fourth instance doctrine arguments in fair trial cases can be justified.en
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean journal of legal studies, 2014, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 77-108en
dc.identifier.endpage108
dc.identifier.issn1973-2937
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage77
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/34386
dc.identifier.volume7
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean journal of legal studiesen
dc.relation.urihttps://ejls.eui.eu/en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.title‘It is not its task to act as a Court of fourth instance’ : the case of the ECtHRen
dc.typeArticleen
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