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- 2018
Giving up on individual justice? The effect of state nonKeywords: European Court of Human Rights,European Convention on Human Rights,Committee of Ministers,pilot judgment procedure,subsidiarity,execution of judgments,individual justice,right to individual petition,access to justice Abstract: The recent judgment of the ECtHR in Burmych and others v. Ukraine has shed new light on the question of how it regards individual justice in the context of the pilot judgment procedure. Confronted with a State reluctant to execute a previous pilot judgment, the Court has chosen to absorb all similar pending cases in the execution process at the Committee of Ministers. This article examines the pilot judgment procedure from the perspective of the involved applicants and aims to answer the question whether in this context the Court has given up on individual justice all together
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