CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 23 janvier 2009

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .sB15BD35E { color:#b5082e } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s2A13E303 { color:#2e97d3 } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sB12174C2 { color:#633277 } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s480C2F3D { color:#fad272 } .s7ED160F0 { text-decoration:none } .s3DC36BA9 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline; color:#0069d6 } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS 60 23 26 .1.2009   Press release issued by the Registrar   Opening of the judicial year of the European Court of Human Rights   The judicial year of the European Court of Human Rights will open on 30 January 2009, officially marking the start of the Strasbourg Court’s 50th anniversary year.   One hundred and fifty eminent figures from the European judicial scene will attend a seminar organised to mark for the occasion.   The seminar will take place in the afternoon, at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (France), from 2.15   pm (local time), and will be followed at 6.15 pm by the official opening ceremony, in the course of which Mr Jean-Paul Costa, President of the Court, and Dame Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice, will address a 250-strong audience representing the judicial world and local and national authorities.   The French Government will be represented at the official opening ceremony by the Minister of Justice, Ms   Rachida   Dati.   The theme of the seminar is “50 years of the European Court of Human Rights viewed by its fellow international Courts”. It will be opened by Mr Jean-Paul Costa, with an introduction by Mme Françoise Tulkens, Section President and judge elected to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Belgium. Mr Patrick Robinson, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , Mr Dennis Byron, Pr e sident of the   I nternational Criminal   Tribunal for   Rwanda, Mr Vassilios Skouris, President of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, and Mr Paolo G. Carozza, Chairman of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, will address the seminar.   The seminar will not be open to the general public ;   however,   the official opening ceremony can be followed by journalists via a live   broadcast in the Court’s Press Room.     *** Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Press contacts Patrick Titiun   (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 08) Stefano Piedimonte   (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 04 88 41 42 04 ) Tracey Turner- Tretz   (t ele phone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Paramy   Chanthalangsy   (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 28 30) Kristina Pencheva -Malinowski   (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 70) Céline   Menu-Lange   (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 90 21 58 77) Press contacts Patrick Titiun (telephone   : 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 08) Tracey Turner-Tretz   (t ele phone   : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Paramy Chanthalangsy   (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 28 30) Kristina Pencheva-Malinowski   (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 70) Céline Menu-Lange   (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 90 21 58 77)   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.