ECHR president notes Russian higher courts' receptiveness to judgments of Strasbourg court
MOSCOW. Dec 6 (Interfax) - European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) President Guido Raimondi highly assessed the work of Russia's Constitutional and Supreme courts in execution of ECHR rulings.
"I would like to make particular mention of the way in which the highest domestic courts have shown their receptiveness to the judgments from Strasbourg. I am thinking of the practice of the Supreme Court in reopening criminal cases where the proceedings were found not to meet the standards required by Article 6, or the explanations issued by its Plenary covering some aspects of case-law," Raimondi said at the ninth All-Russian Congress of Judges, which opened in the Pillar Hall of the House of Unions on Tuesday.
"I also have in mind examples from the practice of the Constitutional Court, in which principles of the European case-law were integrated into constitutional reasoning," he said.
Raimondi said that he will hold a number of meetings in Russia, including with the chairpersons of Russia's Supreme and Constitutional courts, in the next two days.
"My wish is to find out more about how courts in Russia are using the [European] Convention [on Human Rights], and my aim in all of these contacts will be to develop the co-operation between the European Court and our counterparts in the Russian Federation," he said.