CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 3
1.
New directives on fair trial rights ............................................................................................ 3
2.
Lawyers need to use them ...................................................................................................... 3
A.
STRUCTURE OF THE TOOLKITS ........................................................................................... 4
B.
INVOKING EU LAW: GENERAL PRINCIPLES .......................................................................... 4
3.
Direct effect – in general......................................................................................................... 4
4.
Direct effect – Directives......................................................................................................... 5
5.
The duty of conforming interpretation ................................................................................... 6
6.
The Charter ............................................................................................................................. 7
C.
INVOKING THE DIRECTIVES................................................................................................ 7
1.
Brandish the Directive............................................................................................................. 7
2.
The remedial principle ............................................................................................................ 8
a.
The access to a lawyer model ............................................................................................. 8
b.
The other Directives ............................................................................................................ 9
c.
The right to an effective remedy ........................................................................................ 9
d.
General approach in the Toolkits ........................................................................................ 9
3.
The Directives do not create new systems ........................................................................... 10
4.
Use existing avenues of recourse to ensure the effect of the Directives ............................. 10
5.
Exploring the role of pre-trial instances................................................................................ 11
D.
a.
The problem with delayed enforcement .......................................................................... 11
b.
The role of pre-trial instances in ensuring the effect of the Directive.............................. 12
USING A DIRECTIVE BEFORE ITS TRANSPOSITION DEADLINE (ACCESS TO A LAWYER) ........ 12
1.
Review of relevant CJEU cases .............................................................................................. 13
a.
Kolpinguis .......................................................................................................................... 13
b.
Wallonie and subsequent cases ........................................................................................ 14
c.
Mangold ............................................................................................................................ 15
2.
Pleading the ECHR with support of the Directive ................................................................. 16
3.
National pre-deadline uses of the Directives........................................................................ 17
4.
a.
The Paris template pleading ............................................................................................. 17
b.
Litigation before the Dutch Supreme Court...................................................................... 17
c.
Template pleadings in Spain ............................................................................................. 18
Some pre-deadline ideas ...................................................................................................... 18
E.
USING JUDICIAL DECISIONS / LEGAL INFORMATION FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ................. 19
F.
CJEU REFERENCES ........................................................................................................... 20
G.
STRATEGIC APPROACHES ................................................................................................ 21
1.
Work with Fair Trials ............................................................................................................. 21
2.
Tactics & cooperation ........................................................................................................... 21
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