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Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
ECBA Co-Signs Petitions in Support of Turkish Lawyers Mehmet Pehlivan and Günay Dağ – July 2025
11 Jul 2025 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) co-signed two petitions advocating for the immediate...
Joint Statement by the international legal and human rights community on the actions against the Istanbul Bar Association – January 2025
30 Jan 2025 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The international legal and human rights community is deeply concerned by prosecuting authorities’...
International Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2025 – 24 January, 15th edition
23 Jan 2025 | Defending the Defence, Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
In 2025 the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer focused on Belarus, chosen at the...
ECBA successfully intervenes at the ECtHR in case Pietrzak vs Poland – June 2024
5 Jun 2024 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The European Court of Human Rights issued its judgment in the case Pietrzak and...
ECBA Statement of Support for the American College of Trial Lawyers – May 2024
20 May 2024 | Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The European Criminal Bar Association stands in solidarity with the American College of Trial...
ECBA HR Officer at the ECHR hearing in the case Pietrzak v. Poland and Bychawska-Siniarska and Others v. Poland/Hearing – September 2022
29 Sep 2022 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The ECBA, represented by its Human Rights Officer Alexis Anagnostakis, appeared before...
The European Court of Human Rights – change of the time-limit for lodging an application with the Court – January 2022
25 Jan 2022 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
Marialena Tsirli, Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights, announces the change of the...
Joint statement on the Russian state’s measures against lawyer Ivan Pavlov – May 2021
18 May 2021 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The ECBA co-signed a joint statement regarding the situtation of the Russian lawyer Ivan...
The ECBA signed the Joint Petition for the Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2021, focusing this year on Azerbaijan – January 2021
22 Jan 2021 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The Statement addresses some of the critical challenges faced by lawyers there in practising their...
The ECBA expresses its concerns over the proceedings instigated against Judge Igor Tuleya – October 2020
5 Oct 2020 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The ECBA has written to the Supreme Court/ Disciplinary Chamber of Poland to express its concerns...
Request for leave to intervene as a third party ECHR – January 2020
15 Jan 2020 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
The ECBA has sent a request for leave to intervene as a third party to Judge Ksenija Turković,...
The case of two Greek soldiers detained by Turkey – June 2018
25 Jun 2018 | Fair Trial Standards, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
A Plea for the Rule of Law and Good Neighbourliness According to a number of reports two Greek...
HR Committee writes to Interpol – May 2018
22 May 2018 | Defending the Defence, Human Rights Committee, Safeguarding Independent Legal Institutions
Ms Ana Ursachi is a prominent criminal defence lawyer and human rights activist from the Republic...