Joint NGO response to the Standing Committee on the Rules of Court’s proposed insertion of a new Rule of Court 44F on the treatment of highly sensitive documents

Following a joint submission made in April 2018 in relation to a previous iteration (IOR 60/8245/2018), Amnesty International together with other four NGOs comments on a revised proposal by the European Court of Human Rights’ Standing Committee on the Rules of Court to amend the Court’s rules of procedure by introducing a new Rule 44F, and outlines strong objections to adopt a mechanism whereby this Court could receive and rely on or otherwise take into consideration information not disclosed to the applicant and his or her representative of choice and to the specific revised draft Rule 44F.

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