Doc. 12527

25 February 2011

Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights

(in accordance with Article 22 of the European Convention on Human Rights)

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Governments of France, Norway and Switzerland

Contents

Page

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of France       3

Edwige BELLIARD       5

Michel HUNAULT       9

André POTOCKI       13

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Norway       15

Anne GRØSLAD       21

Erik MØSE       25

Karl Nicolai Vogt SKJERDAL       29

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Switzerland       33

Ruth HERZOG       35

Helen KELLER       41

Robert ZIMMERMANN       45

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of France

Unofficial translation

Or. French

PERMANENT DELEGATION OF FRANCE TO THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

       The Ambassador

       N° 55 /LD/MB/

Strasbourg, 14 February 2011

Mr Wojciech SAWICKI,

Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Strasbourg

Dear Secretary General,

Further to the letter from your predecessor dated 6 September 2010, I have the honour to forward to you, on behalf of the French government, the list of three candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights in respect of France.

The names of these candidates, given in alphabetical order, are as follows:

- Mrs Edwige Belliard, member of the Conseil d’Etat, Director of Legal Affairs, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

- Mr Michel Hunault, lawyer, member of the National Assembly and former member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe;

- Mr André Potocki, judge at the Court of Cassation and former judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities.

Please find enclosed herewith their CVs according to the model approved by the Parliamentary Assembly together with the description of the national procedure which led to the nomination of these candidates. These documents are also being forwarded in electronic form.

Yours faithfully.

Encl.

Unofficial translation

Or. French

Description of the national selection procedure

A public call for applications was published on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/IMG/pdf/FichePoste_diffusion.pdf) and on the website of the Ministry of Justice at the beginning of September 2010. It was also publicised in several legal journals. Interested persons had until 15 October 2010 to submit their application.

In accordance with the procedure set out in the call for applications, examination of the candidatures was entrusted to the French National Group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (chaired by Mr Gilbert Guillaume, former Director of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former judge at the International Court of Justice, and whose members were Mr Prosper Weil, professor emeritus of public law, Mr Jean-Pierre Puissochet, former Director of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, and Mr Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, former Director of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Secretary General of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe).

The National Group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration was asked to provide the government with a list of six names from which the names of the three candidates to be presented to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe would be selected.

After interviewing the candidates whose candidature had seemed to correspond best to the functions of the post, the National Group selected a list of five names, drawing the government’s attention to the names of two candidates it felt were particularly worthy of being put forward. These were Mrs Edwige Belliard, member of the Conseil d’Etat and Director of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Mr André Potocki, judge at the Court of Cassation and former judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities.

In order to supplement this list of two names to which the National Group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration had given particular emphasis, the government has chosen a third candidate whose candidature was not shortlisted by the National Group, but whose profile has been deemed to complement that of the other candidates. This is Mr Michel Hunault, barrister and member of the National Assembly, and also member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Edwige BELLIARD

CURRICULUM VITAE*

I.        Personal details

Name, forename: BELLIARD Edwige

Sex: Female

Date and place of birth: 19 May 1949, Khouribga (Morocco)

Nationality: French

Marital and family situation: Widow, two children, born in 1982 and 1986.

II.        Education and academic and other qualifications

Law degree (University of Paris Assas).

Arts degree (Spanish).

Graduate of the Institute of Political Studies, Paris.

Diploma in advanced studies in public law (University of Paris Assas)

Former student of the Ecole nationale d’administration (Guernica year, 1974-1976).

Appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1976).

Appointed member of the Conseil d’Etat (1998)

III.        Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

- 1983-1985: on detachment to the Conseil d’Etat, reporting judge, member of the 7th judicial sub-section (administrative claims);

- 1998-2003:       - reporting judge, member of the 8th judicial sub-section,

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

Agent for France before the courts of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice.

Drafting and presentation of France’s report to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights; participation in – or co-ordination of – the drafting of France’s reports for the committees of the United Nations and the Council of Europe in the field of human rights.

Chair of the Council of Europe’s ad hoc committee on international law (elected chair with effect from 1 January 2011).

Representative of France on the European Union’s Working Party on International Public Law (COJUR).

Delegate at the United Nations General Assembly (2005-2010): participation in the work of the 6th committee (legal affairs);

Member and vice-chair of the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine.

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as secretary for foreign affairs, then adviser, and then minister plenipotentiary:

IV.        Activities and experience in the field of human rights

- government agent before the ECHR;

- Drafting and presentation of France’s report to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights; participation in – or co-ordination of – the drafting of various reports by France for committees in the field of human rights, in particular: for the United Nations, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the Committee against Torture (CAT), the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC); for the Council of Europe, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT);

- numerous responses to consultations by the French authorities on legal issues relating to human rights in the context of the activities of the Directorate of Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

- drafting of Conseil d’Etat reports on secularism and the socialisation of risk.

V.        Public activities

a. Posts in the civil service (not including the Conseil d’Etat)

- In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

Drafting officer in the Europe Directorate, Southern Europe Sub-Directorate;

Drafting Officer in the Department of Strategic Affairs and Disarmament;

Director of Human Resources;

Deputy Director, then Assistant Director and, currently, Director of Legal Affairs.

b. Elected posts

None

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

None

VI.        Other activities

Member of various competition panels: competitive examinations for entry to and graduating from the Ecole nationale d’administration, internal competitions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

VII. Publications and other works

Various articles, including:

VIII.       Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Speaking

Very good

Good

Fair

Very good

Good

Fair

Very good

Good

Fair

a. First language:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French (mother tongue).

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– English

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– French

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c. Other languages:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Spanish

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Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge at the Court.

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge at the Court.

Michel HUNAULT

CURRICULUM VITAE*

I.       Personal details

Name, forename: HUNAULT, Michel

Sex: Male

Date and place of birth: 14 February 1960, Châteaubriant, France

Nationality: French

II.       Education and academic and other qualifications

Master’s degree in Law

Certificate of Aptitude to practise as a lawyer/barrister (CAPA)

Fulfilled the conditions for direct integration into the judiciary (regulations on the judiciary)

III.        Relevant professional activities

Description of judicial activities/activities as a barrister:

Took the oath of barrister (pupil barrister, Rennes Court of Appeal, 1986-1989)

Practising barrister (1989-2011): member of the Nantes Bar

Perfect knowledge and practice of criminal and civil procedure

Barrister (1989-2011): at the Criminal Court, Court of Appeal, Assize Court

Teaching activities:

Lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP Sciences-Po) in Paris for master’s students (since 2009 to the present) on the subjects of “Good governance, the requirement for ethics, the fight against corruption and money-laundering”

IV.       Activities and experience in the field of human rights

Reports for the Council of Europe, on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights:

2009: Rapporteur on the rights of religious minorities

2006: Author and rapporteur, the European Prisons Charter

2004: Author and rapporteur, recommendation on the situation of prisons in Europe

2003: Rapporteur on combating terrorism and respect for human rights

2002: Rapporteur on legal aid

V.       Public activities of a legal and human rights nature

Parliamentary term of office/legal activities:

Member of the National Assembly for Loire-Atlantique, elected in 1993, re-elected in 1997, 2002 and 2007

Member of the Law Commission (1993-2011)

Member of the French delegation to the Council of Europe and the WEU (1993-1997/(1998-2011)

Judge at the High Court of Justice

Vice-Chair of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the dysfunctioning of justice

Member of the Information Task-force to improve access to the law and to justice

Full member of the Prison Administration Council

Member of parliament on assignment to the Minister with responsibility for European Affairs (2003)

European parliamentary activities of a legal and human rights nature:

Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe – PACE

1993-1997/1998 (succeeding François Fillon, current Prime Minister) – 2010, and in this capacity:

- Full member of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

- Representative of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on the CEPEJ (European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice)

- Full member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by the member states of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee)

- Alternate member of the PACE Committee on Economic Affairs

- Full member of the Sub-Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights

Sound knowledge of the European Convention on Human Rights and the functioning of the Court

Interventions in the National Assembly and at the Council of Europe:

Almost 500 interventions of a legal nature in the National Assembly and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in plenary sessions and committees (the National Assembly’s Law Commission and the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights) on the following issues:

- Fair trials and the European Convention on Human Rights

- Reform of the Code of Criminal Procedure

- Introducing mechanisms to monitor establishments of deprivation of liberty

- Prison law

- Access to law and judicial co-operation

- Prison Inspectorate

- Presumption of innocence and pre-trial detention

- Presence of a lawyer and reform of remand in custody

- Future of the European Court of Human Rights

- Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and protocols to the European Convention on Human Rights

As a member of the CEPEJ, sound knowledge of the judicial system in the Council of Europe member states

Interventions are online on the websites of the Council of Europe, the National Assembly and on www.michel-hunault.com

Reports/Law commission/National Assembly:

Rapporteur on the anti-corruption bill (October 2007)

Rapporteur on decentralised co-operation practices in the countries of the European Union (2003)

Rapporteur on the Anti-money-laundering bill

VI.        Other activities

Colloquies and seminars:

Some thirty interventions as a member of the PACE Legal Affairs Committee and the Law Commission of the French National Assembly, on the following issues:

- Prisons

- Justice/fair trial

- Ethics

- Human Rights and the European Convention

Has represented the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights at conferences and colloquies on human rights, the situation of prisons, the fight against terrorism, etc

VII.       Publications and other works

Articles:

- “Loi pénitentiaire: concilier humanité et fermeté” – Presse Quotidienne Régionale – 12 September 2009

- “Prison: concilier humanité et fermeté” – Presse Quotidienne Régionale – 25 August 2009

- “Pour une éthique financière européenne” – Le Monde – 26 February 2008

- “Oui à un contrôle extérieur des prisons” – Presse Quotidienne Régionale – 29 September 2007 “Préjugés coupables!” – Presse Quotidienne Régionale – 27 February 2007

- Prisons. “La voie de l’Europe” – Revue ETVDES – January 2007

- Outreau: “S’il n’y a pas de réponse, on aura gâché quelque chose” – Presse Quotidienne Régionale – 19 June 2006

- “Réforme de la justice: ne gâchons pas l’espoir” – Presse Quotidienne Régionale – 14 June 2006

- “Commission d’Outreau: le temps de l’action” – Presse Quotidienne Régionale – 14 April 2006

- “Un avocat aux interrogatoires de police” – La Croix – 16 March 2006

- “Le Conseil de l’Europe: la conscience de l’Europe” – Presse Quotidienne Régionale – 7 March 2006

- “Une erreur politique” – Le Monde – 23 December 2005

- “Prisons françaises et Europe” – Le Nouvel Observateur – December 2005

- “L’éthique: une exigence pour le siècle” – Le Figaro – 13 March 2001

VIII.       Languages

- French: reading, writing speaking (very good)

- English: attending intensive course (February 2011)

IX.       Other relevant information

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge at the Court.

André POTOCKI

CURRICULUM VITAE*

I. Personal details

Name, forename: POTOCKI André

Sex: male

Date and place of birth: 21 June 1950, Lyon (France)

Nationality: French

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

1973: Law degree, University of Paris II

Graduate of the Institute of Judicial Studies

1975: École Nationale de la Magistrature (Bordeaux)

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

1976: Judge at the Ribérac District Court

1978: Judge at the Angoulême Regional Court

1979: Assistant Secretary General to the first president of the Paris Appeal Court

1982: Vice-president of the Senlis Regional Court

1984: Secretary General to the President of the Paris Regional Court

1985: Secretary General to the First President of the Paris Appeal Court

1988: Secretary General to the First President of the Court of Cassation

1990: Vice-president of the Paris Regional Court

1994: Judge at the Paris Appeal Court

1995: Judge at the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (Luxembourg)

2001: Section President at the Paris Appeal Court

2005: Judge at the Court of Cassation (Commercial section)

2006-2007: Member of the Jurisdiction Court (responsible for ruling on conflicts of jurisdiction between administrative and judicial courts)

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

1994: Associate professor at the University of Paris X – Nanterre (European Community law)

2002-2006: Vice-chair of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), Council of Europe (Strasbourg)

2007-2009: Chair of the panel for the examination of aptitude to carry out the profession of lawyer/barrister at the Conseil d’Etat and the Court of Cassation

2008-2009: Member of the think-tank on reform of the profession of lawyer/barrister (“Darrois committee”)

2008-2010: editor-in-chief of “Cahiers de la justice” (quarterly journal for comparative and multi-disciplinary reflection on justice, published by Dalloz)

2006: Member of the Scientific Board of the “Law and Justice Research Task Force” (Research centre of the French Ministry of Justice, in partnership with the National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS)

2010: Member of the Administrative Board of the Institute of International Transport Law (IDIT)

2011 (first semester): “Visiting Scholar” at the Law School of the University of Columbia (New-York)

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

2009: Member of the committee re-examining a criminal decision further to a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (Article 626-1 et seq. of the Code of Criminal Procedure)

V. Public activities

a. Public office

1991-1994: Head of the Department of European and International Affairs, French Ministry of Justice

VII. Publications and other works

1991: “La formation des magistrats (plaidoyer pour une ouverture)” (Etudes offertes à Pierre Bellet, LITEC)

2000: “L’organisation des juridictions communautaires est-elle porteuse d’enseignements pour les juridictions nationales?” (Le juge entre deux millénaires – Mélanges offerts à Pierre Drai, Dalloz)

2007: “Les réseaux juridictionnels en Europe” (Liber amicorum Bo Vesterdorf, Bruylant)

Numerous preparatory documents for the decisions of the Court of Cassation; for example, with regard to questions of international law: Le Droit Maritime Français – 2007, No. 685 (comprising an exchange of views with a British judge), Revue critique de droit international privé (on police laws in private international law – to be published late 2010)

VIII. Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Speaking

Very good

Good

Fair

Very good

Good

Fair

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Good

Fair

b. Official languages:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

– English

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– French: mother tongue

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XI. I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge at the Court.

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Norway

Ministry of Justice and the Police

Addressees see list page 4

  

Your ref.

Our ref.

Date

 

200905358 EO TKH/KRY/an

03.11.2009

 

Procedure for nomination of Norwegian candidates for the office of judge at the European Court of Human Rights. Appointment of a selection committee for the 2010 nomination

1.        Introduction

Every six years, the Norwegian authorities nominate candidates for the office of judge at the European Court of Human Rights. The European Convention on Human Rights does not specify requirements for the procedures each member state is to follow in nominating its candidates. However, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has set out a number of requirements and recommendations concerning the national process (particularly Resolution 1646 (2009)). The Ministry of Justice has found it appropriate to establish procedures for the Norwegian nomination process, which are set out in point 2 below.

According to the current rules, the term of office of the current Norwegian judge expires on 31 October 2010 (if and when Protocol No. 14 to the Convention enters into force, the term of office will be extended to nine years). This means that the Norwegian authorities must nominate their candidates for the position early in 2010. The current judge can be one of the three candidates. In point 3 below, the Ministry of Justice appoints members to the selection committee that according to the rules of procedure is to make proposals for a list of candidates, and sets out certain other matters relating to the 2010 nomination.

On 15 September 2009, the Ministry of Justice wrote to all the instances to which this letter is addressed, inviting them to a consultation meeting on 24 September. The invitation also included proposed rules of procedure for the nomination process.

2.        Nomination procedure

Briefly, the procedure requires the Ministry of Justice to issue a call for applications and appoint a selection committee to evaluate the applicants and put forward a proposed list of three candidates (not ranked), with grounds for their choice. The committee sends its proposal to the Ministry of Justice, which makes Norway’s formal decision on nomination of three named candidates. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for sending the nomination list to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

2.1 Call for applications for the position as Norwegian judge at the European Court of Human Rights

The Ministry of Justice will issue an open call for applications on the Government website www.regjeringen.no and in specialist journals. In addition, the Ministry will inform the following institutions about the call for applications and ask them to inform their contacts/members, for example by publishing information on their own websites:

- Director of Public Prosecutions

- National Courts Administration

- Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

- The Faculties of Law at Norwegian universities

- Norwegian Association of Judges

- Norwegian Bar Association

- Norwegian Association of Lawyers

The Ministry of Justice will also use other channels to publicise the call for applications, and will inform Norway’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the current Norwegian judge.

The call for applications shall include a description of the position and specification of the qualifications required. To be considered, applicants must have a law degree (cand.jur or Master’s degree in law) and relevant legal experience. Applicants should have a thorough knowledge of the Norwegian legal system and of the human rights field, a good command of written and spoken English or French and as a minimum be able to read and understand the other language. Special weight will be given to applicants’ professional competence, personal suitability and language qualifications, and to the requirements for high moral character and independence that follow from Article 21 of the Convention (and from section 55 of the Courts of Justice Act for Norwegian judges). Candidates should be able and willing to take up the position for the whole term of office. They should preferably not have been involved in so many individual cases that are likely to be brought before the Court that an ad hoc judge will have to be appointed other than in exceptional cases.

The call for applications must also encourage applications from the sex that is under-represented at the Court to apply, and must include the deadline for applications, which is to be at least two weeks after the call for applications is posted on the Internet, and information to the effect that the list of applicants will be made public.

2.2 Selection committee

The Ministry of Justice will appoint a selection committee consisting of five members. The committee will be chaired by the chair of the Judicial Appointments Board (subject to this person’s agreement). The other members will be appointed on the basis of proposals from the Supreme Court, the Office of the Attorney-General, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Norwegian Bar Association. Each of these bodies will be encouraged to put forward the names of one woman and one man.

The selection committee’s task will be to evaluate the applicants for the position and to select three of them, listed in alphabetical order, as candidates. If possible, at least one of the three candidates should be of the sex that at the time is under-represented at the Court. The applicants are to be assessed on the basis of the qualifications specified in the call for applications and any relevant documents from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the applications received, interviews with possible candidates and the references obtained. Proficiency in English and French must be documented or tested for those candidates who may be selected as candidates.

The selection committee may seek advice from relevant external actors, and may use external expertise to evaluate the language proficiency of relevant applicants. The committee should seek advice from earlier Norwegian judges at the Court. The committee is to submit its proposal, with reasons for selecting the candidates, to the Ministry of Justice.

2.3 Decision on nomination

The Ministry of Justice takes the decision on Norway’s nomination of three named candidates after the names have been submitted to the ministers concerned and to the Office of the Prime Minister. If the Ministry is considering deviating from the selection committee’s proposal, the Ministry of Justice must ask the committee for an opinion on any applicants who are not on the selection committee’s short list.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends an alphabetical list of the three candidates to the Council of Europe, accompanied by the candidates’ CVs and information on the selection procedure. The nominations are to be published when the Ministry sends the list of candidates to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

3.        Nomination procedure in 2010

Because of time constraints, the nomination procedure this time will have to take place without the call for applications being published in specialist journals. However, the Ministry of Justice will try to place an advertisement about the call for applications on one or more of the following websites: juristkontakt.no, juristforbundet.no, jus.no.

The procedure for appointing a selection committee described in point 2 above has been followed, and the following are appointed as members of the selection committee for the 2010 nomination:

The committee will be informed of the time limit for submitting a proposed nomination list when the call for applications has been published on the Internet.

Yours sincerely

Knut Helge Reinskou

Director General       Toril K. Høyland

Addressees

The ministries

National Courts Administration

Supreme Court

Norwegian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,

The Storting

Office of the Attorney General

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration

Faculty of Law at each university

Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

Amnesty International Norway

Norwegian Bar Association

Norwegian Association of Judges

Norwegian Helsinki Committee

International Commission of Jurists Norway

Norwegian Association of Lawyers

Anne GRØSLAD

CURRICULUM VITAE*

Erik MØSE

CURRICULUM VITAE*

Karl Nicolai Vogt SKERDAL

CURRICULUM VITAE


List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Switzerland

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From the Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Council of Europe

Strasbourg, 10 February 2011

Election of a Judge in respect of Switzerland: list of candidates

Dear Secretary General,

With reference to the letter of 6 September 2010 from your predecessor, Mateo Sorinas, I have the honour of forwarding to you the curricula vitae (in French and English) of the three candidates for the post of Judge in respect of Switzerland.

You will also find appended a summary of the nomination procedure used by the Swiss authorities, as well as a copy of the letter of 1 February 2011 from the chair of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights.

Yours faithfully

(signed)

Paul Widmer

Mr Wojciech Sawicki

Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly

of the Council of Europe

Copies to:       Mr Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe,

Unofficial translation

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Election of the Swiss Judge to the European Court of Human Rights

Summary of the procedure for the nomination of the three candidates on the Swiss list

The post of Swiss Judge at the European Court of Human Rights was opened to competition at the end of June 2010 in the electronic and paper editions of a daily newspaper from each of the three language areas (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Temps, Il Corriere del Ticino) and on several employment sites on the Internet. The vacancy notice was also drawn to the attention of the presidents of the Federal Court and the higher cantonal courts, via electronic mail, in the second half of August 2010.

Twelve candidates applied. The government short-listed six of them. It based its short list on, in addition to qualifications, gender (two women, four men), language area (two candidates from French-speaking Switzerland, four from German-speaking Switzerland) and the type of legal profession represented (representatives of the judicial and academic spheres and of the Bar).

The government subsequently forwarded the files of the six short-listed persons (as well as the names of the other six candidates) to the Swiss parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe (DCE) and to the legal affairs committee (CJ) of the Federal Assembly. On 24 November 2010, those six persons were interviewed by the DCE and CJ jointly. The DCE and CJ, in a secret ballot, placed the candidates in an order of which the chair of the DCE notified the Federal Council in a letter dated 29 November 2010, with an assessment of the interviews.

On this basis, the Federal Council adopted the following list of candidates on 26 January 2011:

· Mrs Ruth Herzog, Doctor of law, judge at the administrative court of the canton of Berne;

· Mrs Helen Keller, Professor of law, professor of public, European and international law at the University of Zurich; member of the UN Human Rights Committee;

· Mr Robert Zimmermann, Doctor of law, judge at the cantonal court of Vaud.

Switzerland forwarded the aforementioned list on 26 January 2011 to the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights.

Ruth HERZOG

CURRICULUM VITAE

I.       Personal details

Name, forename       Herzog, Ruth

Sex       female

Date and place of birth       16 September 1961, Buea / Republic of Cameroon

Nationality       Swiss

II.        Studies and diplomas, other qualifications

1995

PhD in Law, University of Bern

Doctoral thesis

    Artikel 6 der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention und kantonale Verwaltungsrechtspflege

    (Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and its Implementation in Cantonal Administrative Jurisdiction)

Awarded the "Professor Walther Hug Prize" for high quality (highest honour), 1996.

1989

Admission to the bar, Canton of Bern

1987-1989

Law studies and compulsory traineeships

Traineeships (lasting a total of 1 ½ years) in a law practice, at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Directorate for International Law, and in a prefecture (Cantonal administrative jurisdiction of first instance).

1987

Law degree LLB (magna cum laude), University of Bern

(equivalent: Master’s degree in Law)

Law studies, universities of Geneva and Bern

1985

Degree dissertation

    Elemente zum Menschenrechtsverständnis afrikanischer und arabischer Staaten. – Erarbeitet und dargestellt anhand der Haltung dieser Staaten bei der Ausarbeitung der Internationalen Menschenrechtskonventionen vom 16.12.1966 sowie der im Rahmen der Berichtsprüfungsverfahren abgegebenen Stellungnahmen der Mitgliedstaaten.

    (Elements in the Understanding of Human Rights in African and Arabic States)

Awarded first prize by the Institute of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern.

1984

Seminar paper

    Digestenexegese zu D. 9.2.27.11 (Critical interpretation of the Digest 9.2.27.11)

Awarded second prize by the Institute of Roman Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern.

III.        Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

2010-

Duties as a judge at the Administrative Court of the Canton of Bern, Administrative Law Section.

2007-2009

President of the Administrative Court of the Canton of Bern

Main activities:

Day-to-day management of the court

    – convening and presiding over of the plenum and the executive board

    – representing the Court to third parties

    – regrouping all the employees of the Administrative Court onto one site (staff of approx. 80)

    – replacing the business management IT system

    – etc.

Project to reform the Bernese legal system (conceptual, legislative and administrative work)

    – optimising organisation of judicial authorities and the public prosecutor’s office

    – improving management of the courts and the public prosecutor's office

    – strengthening the justice system’s institutional independence

    – assessing judges’ performance

    – etc.

Project to develop a "corporate culture" within the Administrative Court

    – reflecting on the role of the presidency

    – improving co-operation

    – establishing quality assurance in the administration of justice.

Preparation of festivities for the centenary of the Administrative Court (2009)

    – organisation of a symposium

    – compilation of a compendium of the Administrative Court (historical and current issues, cf. figure VII).

Duties as a judge.

2004-2006

Vice-President of the Administrative Court of the Canton of Bern.

2004-2006

President of the Administrative Law Section of the Administrative Court, Canton of Bern

Main activities:

    – registration of cases, organisation of the first exchange of written pleadings, assigning judges to cases

    – participation in all judgments made by the Administrative Law Section and presidency of the chamber in all cases in order to ensure consistency in the jurisdiction;

    – conducting main proceedings and consultations held in public

    – reorganisation of the Administrative Law Section due to the significant increase in the number of cases and the unacceptable length of proceedings (with the goal of optimising of all proceedings and increasing in efficiency)

    – administrative management of the Administrative Law Section

    – participation in the administration of the Administrative Court as a member of its board

    – duties as a judge.

1999-

Judge at the Administrative Court of the Canton of Bern, Administrative Law Section

Main activities:

    – investigation judge: Preparation of assigned cases, including the gathering of evidence (e.g. interrogation of the parties, inspection of premises, requests for expert opinions, etc.); preparation of draft judgments in conjunction with the registrars; participation in main proceedings and consultations

    – participation in other judgments by the chamber (member of a staff of two, three or five judges)

    – participation in the cases of the Section for Matters in French.

[The Administrative Court of the Canton of Bern is the supreme judicial authority in the canton in cases relating to public law. It generally rules on appeals lodged against rulings on appeals made by a legal administrative authority of first instance. In order to carry out the jurisdictional tasks assigned to it, the Administrative Court is arranged into three sections: the Administrative Law Section, the Social Insurance Section and the Section for Matters in French. With the exception of disputes deriving from social insurance law, the Administrative Law Section rules on all disputes relating to public law to be settled by the Administrative Court in German. The Administrative Court issues rulings in its capacity as the authority immediately preceding the Federal Court, the supreme judicial authority in the Swiss Confederation.]

1997-1999

Member of the Personnel Commission of the Canton of Bern, an appeal authority created at the occasion of the transition to a new staff salary system

Main activity:

    – participation in the affairs of the Commission.

1995-1999

Deputy Secretary General of the Directorate of Education of the Canton of Bern, in charge of the legal department

Main activities:

    – preparing appeals for the Executive Council of the Canton of Bern and the Directorate of Education

    – representing the Executive Council and the Directorate in matters relating to the Directorate of Education, before courts and other cantonal and federal administrative judicial bodies.

1991-1993

Preparing draft judgments of the Federal Court, under the responsibility of an administrative judge in his role as deputy judge of the Federal Tribunal (secondary activity)

1990-1995

Registrar of the Administrative Court of the Canton of Bern, Administrative Law Section

Main activities:

    – preparing draft judgments, under the responsibility of a judge

    – keeping minutes of hearings and consultations

    – helping to prepare cases

    – final drafting of judgments

    – carrying out other tasks (e.g. responsibility for the library and for trainees).

1987-1989

Legal secretary of the Training Grants Appeals Committee of the Canton of Bern (secondary activity)

Activity:

    – preparing all matters relating to cases, preparing draft judgments.

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

2010-

Drafting Commission of the Canton of Bern (public office)

Activities:

    – examining all projects of the revision of the Constitution or laws from a linguistic and legislative perspective

    – ensuring consistency between German and French texts.

2007-

Participation in the support group of the Federal Office of Justice evaluating the effectiveness of the organisation of the new federal justice system.

2005-2007

Participation in the group of experts reviewing legislation on adapting the Bernese Administrative Court to the requirements of ensuring access to justice and the new federal justice organisation.

2000-2003

Moderator of the "municipal law" forum of the Directorate of Justice, Municipal and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Canton of Bern.

1999

Participation in project on matters relating to the administration of justice as part of the reorganisation of administration in the districts of Bern.

1998-1999

Participation in the "NOG Legislation" project, for the new system of administrative management in the Canton of Bern.

1997-2003

Board of Law Examiners

Activity:

    – Examiner in the field of public law, including procedural law.

1995-1999

Deputy Secretary General of the Directorate of Education in the Canton of Bern, in charge of the legal department

Relevant activities:

    – advising and supporting the director, employees and other associated parties (communes, schools etc.) in carrying out the tasks assigned to the Directorate of Education;

    – participating in the decision-making processes in the Directorate;

    – coordinating legal affairs in the fields of training and culture; participation in legislative affairs; preparation of projects on laws and ordinances.

Misc.

Academic papers; various offices in legal training

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

None.

IV.        Activities and experience in the field of human rights

Academic research in the field of human rights, in particular in the field of procedural guarantees (cf. figures II and VII).

Very extensive practical experience as a judge (12 years) in the field of human rights and fundamental liberties as well as in the field of procedure.

Member of the Association Humanrights.ch – Human Rights Switzerland (since 2001).

Member of Amnesty International, Swiss section (since 2008).

V.        Public activities

a. Public office

Current:

Previous:

(cf. section III).

b. Elected posts

As a judge at the Administrative Court of the Canton of Bern: elected by the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern (cantonal parliament).

As a member of the Drafting Committee of the Canton of Bern: elected by the Office of Grand Council of the Canton of Bern.

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

Neither a member of a political party nor of a political movement.

Participation in the group set up by the Green Party of the Canton of Bern to examine the candidature of Green Party members for judicial posts in terms of their professional and personal aptitude.

VI.        Other activities

Member of the Association of Bernese judges and public prosecuters (AJPB), since 1999.

Member of the Swiss Association of Judicial Magistrates (ASM), since 2009.

Member of the Association of Bernese lawyers (SJB), since 1990; field: Continuing Professional Development for lawyers in civil, criminal and public law

Member of the Swiss Association of lawyers, since 1992.

Member of the Swiss Association for Environmental Law (ADE), since 1999; field: Continuing Professional Development for lawyers in environment law

VII.        Publications and other works

2010       Bernische Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit in Geschichte und Gegenwart – 100 Jahre Verwaltungsgericht des Kantons Bern Bern / La justice administrative bernoise, histoire et actualité – 100 ans du Tribunal administratif du canton de Berne, Bern, publ. Geiger SA, 603 pages (including 25 contributions devoted to the position and activities of the Administrative Court since its creation and to current issues facing public law courts), conception and publication in collaboration with Dr. Reto Feller.

2009       Verfahrensgarantien im Ausländerrecht, in: Alberto Achermann et al. (publisher) Jahrbuch für das Migrationsrecht (Almanac for Immigration Law) 2008/2009, Bern, publ. Stämpfli, pp. 3-53.

2009       Die Umsetzung der Rechtsweggarantie im bernischen Gesetz über die Verwaltungsrechtspflege, in: Bernische Verwaltungsrechtsprechung (BVR) / Jurisprudence administrative bernoise (JAB) (Bernese Administrative Case Law) 2009, pp. 1-46, in conjunction with Michel Daum Esq.

2007       Auswirkungen der neuen Bundesrechtspflege auf die Staats- und Verwaltungsrechtspflege in den Kantonen, in: Pierre Tschannen (publisher), Neue Bundesrechtspflege. Auswirkungen der Totalrevision auf den kantonalen und eidgenossischen Rechtsschutz (New Federal Judicial System. Effects of the complete revision on cantonal and federal legal protection). Berner Tage für die juristische Praxis 2006, Bern, publ. Stämpfli, pp. 43-111.

1997       Kommentar zum Verwaltungsrechtspflegegesetz des Kantons Bern, Bern, publ. Stämpfli, 936 pages, in conjunction with Thomas Merkli Esq. and Dr. Arthur Aeschlimann.

1995       Artikel 6 der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention und kantonale Verwaltungsrechtspflege, dissertation, Bern, publ. Stämpfli, 427 pages.

1985       Elemente zum Menschenrechtsverständnis afrikanischer und arabischer Staaten. – Erarbeitet und dargestellt anhand der Haltung dieser Staaten bei der Ausarbeitung der Internationalen Menschenrechtskonventionen vom 16.12.1966 sowie der im Rahmen der Berichtsprüfungsverfahren abgegebenen Stellungnahmen der Mitgliedstaaten. Degree dissertation, University of Bern, non published, 149 pages.

VIII.        Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Spoken

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good

fair

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good

fair

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good

fair

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IX.        In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court.

If I am elected to the Court, I will be very keen to perfect my knowledge of the two official languages of the Council of Europe.

X.        Other relevant information

None.

XI.        Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if I am elected a judge at the Court.

Bern, 8 February 2011

Helen KELLER

CURRICULUM VITAE

I.        Personal details

Name, forename

KELLER, Helen

Sex: female

Date and place of birth: 1 June 1964, Zurich (Switzerland)

Nationality: Swiss

II.        Education and academic and other qualifications

2004 – present Professor of International Law, Constitutional Law and European Law at the University of Zurich (Switzerland)

2010 Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo (Norway)

2009 Visiting Researcher at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, head of the research project on “Friendly Settlement before the European Court of Human Rights” (published by Oxford University Press 2010)

2001–2004 Professor of International Law, Constitutional Law and European Law at the University of Lucerne (Switzerland)

2000 Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for International Law, Heidelberg (Germany)

1996 Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy)

1995 Research Fellow at Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, MA (United States)

1994 Master of European Law, Bruges, (Belgium)

1994 Recipient of the “Walther Hug-Award” for one of the best doctoral theses in public law in Switzerland

1993 Doctorate in environmental law at the University of Zurich (summa cum laude)

III.        Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

2008 – present Member of the U.N. Human Rights Committee (HRC) and in that capacity serving as a Rapporteur for individual cases before the HRC (mainly against Azerbaijan, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Uzbekistan)

2006 legal counsel representing the applicant Mr. Stoll, in Stoll v. Switzerland (Grand Chamber, Judgment 10 December 2007, appl. no. 69698/01)

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

2008 – present Board Member of ICJ-CH (International Law Commission, Swiss Section)

1996 – present legal counsel in a law firm (Lindtlaw, Zurich/Kreuzlingen), main activities: legal opinion in the areas of public constitutional law, public international law, environmental law and human rights law

1996 – present Member of ASIL (American Society of International Law)

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

(Please underline the post(s) held at present)

Foundation “Autismus Schweiz” (founding member of the board, vice-president, charitable)

IV.       Activities and experience in the field of human rights

2010 representing the HRC at the Inter-committee Meeting of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies from the 28th to the 30th June 2010, presenting the new harmonised reporting guidelines, LOIPR

2009 attendee at the Expert Meeting on Witness Protection in Human Rights Trial from the 29th to the 30th September 2009, organized by the OHCHR, presenting the Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee on Witness Protection

2008 representing the HRC at the Minority Forum on the 15th and 16th December 2008, organised by the OHCHR

V.        Public activities

a. Public office

No office at present.

b. Elected posts

Member of the U.N. Human Rights Committee.

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

(Please underline the post(s) held at present)

No post at present.

VI.        Other activities

a. Field

b. Duration

c. Functions

(Please underline your current activities)

VII.        Selected Publications

Books:

Helen Keller / Geir Ulfstein (eds.), UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies – Law and Legitimacy, Cambridge 2011 (forthcoming in fall, ca. 500 pages)

Helen Keller / Magdalena Forowicz / Lorenz Engi, Friendly Settlements Before the European Court of Human Rights. Theory and Practice, Oxford 2010, 312 p..

Helen Keller / Alec Stone Sweet (eds.), A Europe of Rights: the Impact of the ECHR on National Legal Systems, Oxford 2008 (852 pages).

Helen Keller / Daniela Thurnherr, Taking International Law Seriously. A European Perspective on the U.S. Attitudes Towards International Law, Berne/New York/Athens 2005 (167 pages).

Helen Keller, Rezeption des Völkerrechts. Eine rechtsvergleichende Studie zur Praxis des U.S. Supreme Court, des Gerichtshofes der Europäischen Gemeinschaften und des schweizerischen Bundesgerichts in ausgewählten Bereichen, Zürcher Habilitationsschrift, Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, vol. 160, Berlin etc. 2003 (855 pages).

Articles:

Helen Keller / Andreas Fischer / Daniela Kühne, Proposal for a Draft Statute of the European Court of Human Rights, Human Rights Law Journal 2011 (forthcoming in April, ca. 40 pages).

Helen Keller / Daniela Kühne, Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte als Verfassungsgericht, in: Armin von Bogdandy / Christoph Grabenwarter / Peter Michael Huber (Hrsg.), Handbuch Ius Publicum Europaeum, vol. 4: Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in Europa, Heidelberg 2012 (ca. 50 pages).

Helen Keller / Andreas Fischer / Daniela Kühne, Debating the Future of the European Court of Human Rights after the Interlaken Conference. Two Innovative Proposals, European Journal of International Law 21:4 (2010), 1025–1048.

Helen Keller / Maya Sigron, State Security v Freedom of Expression: Legitimate Fight against Terrorism or Suppression of Political Opposition?, Human Rights Law Review 10 (2010), 151–168.

Helen Keller / Andreas Fischer, Mounting Criticism Against the UN Anti-Terror Sanctions Regime, Human Rights Law Review 9:2 (2009), 257–266.

VIII.        Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Speaking

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good

fair

very good

good

fair

very good

good

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XI.        Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected.

Robert ZIMMERMANN

CURRICULUM VITAE*

I.        Personal details

Name, forename: Zimmermann Robert

Sex: male

Date and place of birth: 30 November 1957, Geneva (Switzerland)

Nationality: Swiss

II.        Education and academic and other qualifications

Complete legal studies at the Faculty of Law, Geneva University: degree (1980); Diploma of Higher Studies in Law (1983); Doctorate (1986).

III.        Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

Judge with the Vaud Cantonal Court, Court of Administrative and Public Law, since 1 January 2008

In this framework:

Substitute judge with the Inter-Cantonal Appeals Commission in the area of lotteries and betting

Judge with the Vaud Canton Administrative Court, from 1 October 2005 to 31 December 2007, with the same responsibilities as at present.

Scientific adviser with the Federal Court from 1 September 1988 to 30 September 2005

In this connection, preparation for judges of the 1st Court of Public Law of reports and draft judgments in all fields coming under the Court’s jurisdiction, including:

Preparing French- and Italian-language cases for judgement on behalf of the President of the Court (Presidential Secretary, from 1 January 1995 to 30 September 2005).

Lawyer/registrar (head of court) of the Administrative Court of the Canton of Geneva (1985 – 1988).

Concurrently: rapporteur, on behalf of the judges, in cases delegated by the latter.

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

Assistant in the Faculty of Law (Constitutional Law Department; Prof. Dr. Andreas Auer; 1980-1985).

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

I had no non-legal professional activities.

IV.        Activities and experience in the field of human rights

Expert assignment for the Council of Europe concerning draft legislation on local self-government, territorial organisation and local elections in the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, 21-24 April 1997.

Expert assignment for the Intenational Organization of La Francophonie on the role of Constitutional Courts in the electoral process, Paris, 17-20 November 2003.

V.        Public activities

a. Public office

Except of what mentioned above (III), I have held no public office.

b. Elected posts

I have held no elected post. My candidacy as a judge was backed by the Social Democratic Party. The judges do not express publicly their opinions on political subjects.

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

Member of the Swiss Social Democratic Party since 1976. Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Geneva section, from 1990 to 1994.

VI.        Other activities

a. Field

Contributor to the Revue de droit administratif et fiscal (Review of Administrative and Fiscal Law), since 1987.

Member of the Environmental Law Association, since 1996.

b. Duration

c. Functions

VII.        Publications and other works

Le contrôle préjudiciel en droit fédéral et dans les cantons suisses, thèse Genève, 1986, Collection juridique romande, 311 p., Payot, Lausanne, 1987, (prix Bellot 1987).

La coopération judiciaire internationale en matière pénale, 3ème édition, 848 p., Berne et Bruxelles, LGDJ, Stämpfli et Bruylant, 2009.

Articles


Les rapports de droit spéciaux dans la jurisprudence du Tribunal fédéral, in: Charles-Albert Morand (ed), La légalité: un principe à géométrie variable, Collection genevoise, Bâle et Francfort-sur-le-Main, 1992, p. 117ss.

Les recours, in: Charles-Albert Morand (ed), Droit de l'environnement: mise en oeuvre et coordination, Collection genevoise, Bâle et Francfort-sur-le-Main, 1992, p. 117ss (avec Thierry Tanquerel)

Les sanctions disciplinaires et administratives au regard de l'art. 6 CEDH, Revue de droit administratif et fiscal 1994 p. 335ss.

Droit de recours - quo vadis ? (Protection des eaux et de la nature - problèmes juridiques actuels), Droit de l’environnement dans la pratique 1996 p. 788ss.

L'extradition dans l'"espace judiciaire européen", in: Pierre-Henri Bolle/Heinz Steffen (ed), La criminalité financière, Actes du 60ème Cours international de criminologie, Bâle, 2002, p. 151ss.


Die neuere Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichts zur internationalen Rechtshilfe in Strafsachen, in: Bernhard Ehrenzeller (ed), Aktuelle Fragen der internationalen Amts- und Rechtshilfe, St Gall, 2005, p. 175ss.

Communication d’informations et de renseignements pour les besoins de l’entraide judiciaire internationale en matière pénale: un paradigme perdu ?, Pratique juridique actuelle 2007 p. 62ss.

Questions procédurales liées à la confiscation internationale, in: Sandrine Giroud- Roth/Alvaro Borghi (ed), Confiscation internationale et Etat de droit, Genève/Lugano/Bruxelles, 2010, p. 185ss

VIII.        Languages

Language

Reading

Writing

Speaking

very good

good

fair

very good

good

fair

very good

good

fair

a. First language:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IX.        In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court.

I do confirm, in the event that I do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in English, my intention to follow intensive language classes in English prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of my term of duty as elected a judge on the Court.

X.        Other relevant information

Recipient of the Vontobel Family Foundation Prize, awarded by the Swiss Lawyers’ Society in 2006.

XI.        Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

I do confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

* Underlined text indicates posts or missions held at present.

* Underlined text indicates posts or missions held at present.

* Underlined text indicates posts or missions held at present.

* Underlined text indicates posts or missions held at present.

* Underlined text indicates posts or missions held at present.

* Underlined text indicates posts or missions held at present.