CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 4 octobre 2001

.s3ABFC313 { font-size:10pt } .s598389F9 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:12pt } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s85646119 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; font-size:12pt } .s23A41E03 { width:36pt; display:inline-block } .s420E98AC { margin-top:0pt; margin-left:360pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; text-align:justify; font-size:12pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s76CF415B { page-break-before:always; clear:both } .s556ED54D { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:-0.1pt } .s2EF62ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt } .sCB27B9E { width:16.66pt; display:inline-block } .s147A4AAD { width:18pt; display:inline-block } .s8AFB426F { width:32.67pt; display:inline-block } .s68BA453A { width:7.99pt; display:inline-block } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS                                             700 4.10.2001     Press release issued by the Registrar   ELECTION OF PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENTS AND SECTION PRESIDENTS     In elections held yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights re-elected its President, Luzius Wildhaber (Swiss), for a second three-year term beginning on 1 November 2001.   The Court elected two Vice-Presidents, Christos Rozakis (Greek) and Jean-Paul Costa (French), who will also sit as Section Presidents. Two further Section Presidents were elected: Georg Ress (German) and Sir Nicolas Bratza (British). The terms of office of the Vice-Presidents and Section Presidents will also be of three years and begin on 1 November 2001.   The Court has 41 judges (one in respect of each State to have ratified the European Convention on Human Rights). The judges work in four Sections - each with a Section President - from which Chambers of seven judges are constituted. The Court also sits as a Grand Chamber of seventeen Judges.   ***   President Wildhaber was born in 1937. He studied law at Basle and Yale universities. In 1977 he was appointed Professor at Basle University. From 1992 to 1994 he was Rector of the University. From 1975 to 1988 he sat as a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein and from 1989 to 1994 as a judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank. He has been a judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1991 and President of the Court since 1 November 1998.   Judge Rozakis was born in 1941. He studied law in Athens and London and at the University of Illinois. From 1980 to 1986 he was Professor of Public International Law at the Pantion University in Athens and then Professor of International Law at the University of Athens. He was a member of the European Commission of Human Rights from 1987-1998. He was elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights and then Vice-President and Section President from 1 November 1998.   Judge Costa was born in 1941 and studied in Paris at the Institute of Political Studies, the Law Faculty and the National School of Administration. From 1985 to 1986 he chaired the French delegation during the negotiations for the Treaty between France and the United Kingdom for the channel fixed link. From 1989 to 1993 he was Assessor of a Chamber in the Judicial Division of the Conseil d’Etat and from 1993 to 1998 he was the President of a Chamber. He has been a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 November 1998 and Section President since 1 May 2000.   Judge Ress was born in 1935 and studied at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Vienna. From 1977 to 1998 he was Full Professor of International and Constitutional Law and the Law of the European Communities at the University of the Saarland (Saarbrücken). In 1979 he was appointed Director of the Institute of European Studies and, in 1995, Director of the Institute of Human Rights Studies at the University of the Saarland. From 1994 to 1998 he was the German member of the European Commission of Human Rights. He has been a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 November 1998 and Section President since 1 May 2000.   Judge Sir Nicolas Bratza was born in 1945. He studied law at Oxford University. After qualifying as a barrister, he was appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown, and subsequently Queen's Counsel. In 1993 he was elected a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn and appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court. He was appointed High Court Judge in 1998. He was the United Kingdom member of the European Commission of Human Rights from 1993 to 1998. He has been a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 November 1998 and was a Section President from 1 November 1998 until 30 April 2000.   ***   Further information on 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 Contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: (0)3 88 41 24 92) Or:     Emma Hellyer (telephone: (0)3 90 21 42 15) Fax:     (0)3 88 41 27 91   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in 1959 in Strasbourg to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.   On 1 November 1998 a permanent Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Commission and Court.