CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 27 avril 2005

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .s9F8EB0C0 { width:18.63pt; display:inline-block } .s9E97F54A { width:85.05pt; display:inline-block } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   232 27.4.2005   Press release issued by the Registrar   Judge elected in respect of Latvia   The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has elected today Ms Ineta Ziemele as judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Latvia.   Ms Ziemele was born in 1970 and studied law at Latvia University and Cambridge University (United Kingdom) among others. Since 1991, Ms Ziemele has been Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Riga Graduate School of Law. From 1999 to 2001, she was a programme adviser to the Directorate General of Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Human Rights Co-operation and Awareness Division. She has been a practising attorney since 2002. In 2004, she was appointed ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights in two cases brought against Latvia.   Judges are elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from a list of three candidates put forward by the State concerned.   Judges are in principle elected for a period of six years. However, under Article 23 § 5 of the Convention a judge elected to replace a judge whose term of office has not expired holds office for the remainder of his predecessor’s term. Ms Ziemele will complete the term of office of the former Latvian judge, Mr Egils Levits, who resigned and whose term of office was due to expire on 31 October 2007.     ***   Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Press contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 24 92)   Emma Hellyer (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15)   Stéphanie Klein (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 21 54) Fax: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 27 91   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. Since 1 November 1998 it has sat as a full-time Court composed of an equal number of judges to that of the States party to the Convention. The Court examines the admissibility and merits of applications submitted to it. It sits in Chambers of 7 judges or, in exceptional cases, as a Grand Chamber of 17 judges. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe supervises the execution of the Court’s judgments.