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CYIL 7 ȍ2016Ȏ NONǧGOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS UNDER THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION…

Tymofeyeva Alla

Non-governmental Organisations under the European Convention on

Human Rights. Exceptional Legal Standing

[Nevládní organizace podle Evropské úmluvy o ochraně lidských práv. Výjimečné

právní postavení]

rw&w Science & New Media Passau-Berlin-Prague, an international

publishing project of Südost Service GmbH, Germany, Prague 2015, 340 pages

“Non-governmental organisations under the European Convention on Human

Rights, Exceptional legal standing” is a promising title not only for representatives of

the aforesaid organisations but for anyone interested in protection of human rights

in Europe. Tymofeyeva seems to have a predilection for the subject since several

of her previous articles

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have already dealt with the legal status and the rights of

legal persons or non-governmental organisations (‘NGOs’) under the European

Convention on Human Rights (‘Convention’). However, as she justifiably observes

in her ‘Introductory remarks’, “there is not yet a detailed monograph that would

cover the issue in question”. It is done now, and it is done well.

Tymofeyeva’s book is an exhaustively researched and carefully written study on the

different aspects of NGOs’ standing in the proceedings before the European Court of

Human Rights (‘Court’). The author’s principal aim in this work is to establish the

autonomous definition of the term ‘NGO’ under the Convention and to analyse the

main roles of the NGOs before the Court as well as their rights and duties, in order to

demonstrate that NGOs are subjects with an exceptional legal standing.

The structure of the book properly fits its aim. The first chapter discusses

the notion of an ‘NGO’ and provides a detailed examination of its definition in

the doctrine of the international law and in different human rights instruments.

Tymofeyeva seeks to demonstrate that the special definition of ‘NGO’ under the

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Tymofeyeva, A.: The Highest Amounts of Just Satisfaction : Awards of the European Court of Human

Rights to Legal persons (

Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law

, Vol. 6, Prague: Czech

Society of International Law, 2015), pp. 23-37.

Tymofeyeva, A.: Some guarantees regarding criminal proceedings applicable to non-governmental

organizations: Protocol no. 7 to the European convention on human rights (

Czech Yearbook of Public

and Private International Law

, Vol. 4, Prague: Czech International Law Society, 2013), pp. 153-171.

Tymofeyeva, A.: The legal status of non-governmental organisations under the European Convention

on Human Rights and consequences in international law in:

Nové trendy odpovědnosti řešení sporů

v mezinárodním právu (vliv nestátních aktérů)

: SMP No. 4, Praha, Univerzita Karlova, Právnická

fakulta, 2012), pp. 100-115.

Tylofeyeva, A.: Do legal persons have the right to respect for private and family life (

Czech Yearbook

of Public and Private International Law

, Vol. 5, Prague: Czech Society of International Law, 2014),

pp. 291-307.