CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 25 janvier 2008

.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 } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   52 25.1.2008   Press release issued by the Registrar     150 of Europe’s most senior judicial figures to meet for opening of new judicial year   One hundred and fifty of Europe’s most senior judicial figures will be taking part in a seminar at the European Court of Human Rights today to mark the start of the new judicial year.   The seminar will be held in the afternoon at the Court in Strasbourg, France, from 2.30 pm (local time) and will be followed in the evening at 6.15 pm by the official opening ceremony, at which the Court’s President Jean-Paul Costa and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour will speak to an audience of around 250 people, from the judiciary and local and national authorities.   The theme of the seminar is “the role of consensus in the system of the European Convention on Human Rights”. The seminar will be opened by Mr Costa, with an introduction by Anatoly Kovler, the judge in respect of Russia at the European Court of Human Rights. There will be speeches from the Chief Justice of Ireland John Murray, Belgian Constitutional Court judge Paul Martens and Vice-President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court Peter Paczolay.   It is not a public event but the speeches and general information will be available on the Court’s Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).     ***   Press contacts Emma Hellyer (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15) Stéphanie Klein (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 21 54) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Paramy Chanthalangsy (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 54 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.