The applicability of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and Restitution of Private Property

Abstract

Conflicting interests and mutual distrust among states made difficult to reach fully satisfactory agreement concerning human rights at the United Nations levle. Such agreement was easier to reach at the regional level and the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) with the Protocols added later and its enforcement mechanism might be served as an excellent example on this field. The monograph focused on problems connected with legal aspects of the applicability of the ECHR concerning restitution of private property located on the territory of states - parties of the Convention. In order to understand the complexity of this issue - the main important verdicts passed by the European Court of Human Rights were examined