Ireland yet to implement ECtHR ruling after nearly two decades
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Ireland has yet to introduce an effective remedy for people who have suffered from excessively long civil and criminal proceedings nearly two decades after a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling.
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, which is responsible for supervising the execution of ECtHR judgments, expressed “profound disappointment” today in its interim resolution on the McFarlane v Ireland cases.
It said that “no tangible progress has been achieved” on the matter, 17 years after the court first identified a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, in spite of “repeated calls to this end”.
The committee has “exhorted the Irish authorities to give the necessary priority to the establishment of a remedy for excessive length of judicial proceedings in line with ECHR principles as established in the Court’s case law, to decide on next steps and to speed up the legislative process to that end”.
Ireland will be required to provide an update by 1 March 2021 on “the model of the remedy and a revised calendar for its establishment and entry into force”.
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