ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Christopher Keeler, Jonas Hertner, and Ivan Shalev for their editorial assistance and comments on the draft. Our gratitude also extends to Marina Gente and Anne-Laurence Lacroix for their support at various stages of this project. We would also like to thank those who have contributed to the first edition. First and foremost we would like to express our deepest gratitude to Uğur Erdal and Hasan Bakırcı who authored the first edition. We would also like to thank Victoria Lee and Aubra Fletcher for their editorial assistance and to Giulia Grazioli, Sanne Rooseboom and Yvonne Troya for their legal and thematic research during various stages of the project. We are very grateful to Agnes van Steijn, case lawyer at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights for reading several drafts of the Guide. We are grateful to the following lawyers who very kindly permitted us to include documents drafted by them as appendices to this Guide: Roeland Böcker of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, for the Government’s observations submitted to the Court in the case of Van der Ven v. the Netherlands; Professors Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson, the applicants’ legal representatives in the case of Akkum and Others v. Turkey, for the observations submitted to the Court on behalf of the applicants; Philip Leach, Cihan Aydın and Reyhan Yalçındağ, the applicant’s legal representatives in the case of Kişmir v. Turkey, for the observations submitted to the Court on behalf of the applicant. Our gratitude also expends to the third party interveners (NGOs) in the case of A and Others v. Secretary of State for the Home Department and A and Others (FC) and Another v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, and in the case of Ramzy v. The Netherlands, for permission to reproduce their submissions in the appendices. We would like to thank Roderick Liddell, Head of External Relations and Communication at the European Court of Human Rights, for allowing us to reproduce various documents available on the Council of Europe’s website which appear in several of the Textboxes of this Guide. Finally, my thanks to Veronica de Nogales Leprevost for contributing the cover design for the OMCT Handbook Series. DISCLAIMER The views expressed in this book are solely those of the authors. They do not represent the views of any organisation, institution or Government. 5