PART 2: How to Bring a Case to the Court
continue on separate sheets. However, the application cannot exceed 20 pages, not
including accompanying decisions and documents.
According to Rule 47 of the Rules of Court and the application form an application
needs to set out the following:
a. The name, date of birth, nationality, address, telephone, e-mail address, and
sex of the applicant (Part A and B of the application form).
In addition, applicants, who already have a case pending before the Court,
have to provide the application number as well as place a barcode label of
this application in the designated box.
b. The name, address, nationality, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address of the representative, if any (Part C of the application form).
A statement of authority is also provided in Part C. The applicant must
sign that he or she authorizes his or her representative to act on his or
her behalf.
c. The name of the Contracting Party or Parties against which the application
is made (Part D of the application form).
d. A concise and legible statement of the facts (Part E of the application form).
e. A concise and legible statement of alleged violation(s) of the Convention
and the relevant arguments (Part F of the application form).
When completing Part F of the application form, the Convention and the
relevant Protocols should be consulted and their terminology must be observed. If the applicant wishes to invoke a provision of a Protocol to the
Convention, he or she should ensure that the respondent State has ratified
the relevant Protocol and that it was in force at the relevant point in time.
f. A concise and legible statement confirming the applicant’s compliance
with the admissibility criteria laid down in Article 35 (1) of the Convention.
(Part G of the application form).
Here, the applicant should demonstrate that domestic proceedings are exhausted and that the application before the Court has been lodged within
six months after receipt of the final domestic judgment.
g. Statement concerning other international proceedings (Part H of
the application).
In this part of the application form, applicants need to set out if they have
submitted an application to another international tribunal such as the UN
Committee against Torture. The applicant also needs to indicate whether
he or she had any other applications before the Court.
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