Court Delay and Human Rights Remedies

Dr Caroline Savvidis, LL.D., Dip. Not. Pub., LL.B. advocates the use of human rights and protection of the individual as a basis for governance and the creation of policy. She has served as executive director, non-executive board member and in a fiduciary capacity on European regulated financial services firms and other undertakings and is the managing partner of BN&P Advocates, a law firm advising on efficiency in administration and regulation and the resolution of cross-border family office matters; the practice maintains an active pro bono department for human rights-related advice. Dr Savvidis graduated with a first-class Doctor of Laws dissertation treating the effectiveness, in practice, of remedies for unreasonable delay as a formidable obstacle to accessing justice which plagues all 47 states of the Council of Europe. Over the years she has conducted extensive research on the themes of human rights protection, peacekeeping and the architecture of legal systems. She is a guest lecturer and speaker at international conferences, universities and other fora where she is invited to present her latest research and proposals.

Foreword, Preface; Introduction; Preliminary pleas and fundamental concepts relevant to length-of-proceedings cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights; Guidance drawn from judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: the relevance and utility of ECHR Articles 6 and 13 to length-of-proceedings cases; Case study based on the legal system of Malta, part I: human rights remedies for delay; Case study based on the legal system of Malta, part II: remedies for delay within ordinary law; Case study based on the legal system of Malta, part III: conclusions; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.