Progress report | Doc. 14086 Addendum II | 20 June 2016

Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights

Bureau of the Assembly

1. Report of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights

The Committee held a meeting in Strasbourg on 19 June 2016 with Mr Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), in the Chair.

2. Introduction

In accordance with previous practice and as specified in Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 2002 (2014), [(1) See document AS/Cdh/Inf (2016) 01 rev 3 for details.] the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights assessed the qualifications of the candidates to the Court in respect of the United Kingdom. [(2) See Appendix 1 for the list of candidates submitted by the Government concerned. The curricula vitae of candidates can be found in Assembly Doc. 14050.] A list of members of the Committee who participated in the meeting can be found in Appendix 2.

3. Conclusions of the committee on the list of candidates submitted by the United Kingdom, Contracting State to the European Convention on Human Rights

The Committee recommends, by a narrow majority, Mr Tim Eicke, over Ms Jessica Simor, as the most qualified candidate.

Appendix 1 – List of candidates submitted by the Government of the United Kingdom [(3) See footnote 2, above.]

• Mr Tim EICKE
• Mr Murray HUNT
• Ms Jessica SIMOR

Appendix 2 – Members of the committee who participated in the meeting [(4) Not all the members of the Committee participated in all the interviews / deliberations.]

Group of the European People's Party (EPP/CD):

• Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI, Republic of Moldova
• Mr Vladyslav GOLUB, Ukraine
• Ms Inese LĪBIŅA-EGNERE, Latvia
• Mr Sergiy VLASENKO, Ukraine

Socialist Group (SOC):

• Lord Donald ANDERSON, United Kingdom
• Ms Eka BESELIA, Georgia
• Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Latvia, Chairperson
• Mr Evangelos VENIZELOS, Greece

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE):

• Ms Anne BRASSEUR, Luxembourg
• Ms Cristina DE PIETRO, Italy

European Conservatives Group (EC):

• Ms Suella FERNANDES, United Kingdom
• Mr Arkadiusz MULARCZYK, Poland

Group of the Unified European Left (UEL):

• Mr Matjaž HANŽEK, Slovenia

Ex Officio:

• Ms Elena CENTEMERO, Italy, Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination

Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly:

• Mr Wojciech SAWICKI, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly
• Mr Günter SCHIRMER, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Department