EUROPEAN COURT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - PLAINT AGAINST FORCED HUNTING

On 20 January 2011 the Low Chamber of the European Court for Human Rights repealed a plaint of a German landowner (barrister Günter Herrmann) who opposed to the forced hunting on two grounds of his property in Rheinland-Pfalz. The Low Chamber held that forced hunting be not in conflict with human rights, and therefore contradicted two other verdicts of the Court itself, which in cases of French and Luxemburg landowners stated that forced hunting was in contrast with the European Convention for the Human Rights. An appeal to the High Chamber written by barristers Herrmann and Dominik Storr has been admitted and will be discussed by the High Chamber, which is composed by 17 judges, on 30 November 2011 at 9,15 a.m.

In preparation

Updated 17 August 2011