I stand corrected about Russia, who signed up to it on 28th Feb. 1996 ( what a joke that is )..........but the crucial phrase in the following is " Contracting States ".........those who signed up to it. So if we leave the EU, we can withdraw from that contract; I think remaining in the EU would be prerequisite to signing up to membership of the ECOHR. As I've said before, we can actually pass our own laws and that includes laws on human rights; keeping all the good and getting rid of the bad parts, that produce abuses. People seem to have forgotten that we can make our OWN laws, you know, we don't have to have our bottoms wiped for us forever.

European Court of Human Rights Established Country Location Authorized byDecisions are appealed to Number of positions Website President Currently Since

Signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights

1959 (initially) 1998 (permanent)

47 member states of the Council of Europe

Strasbourg, France

European Convention on Human Rights

Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights

47 judges. One from each of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe

http://echr.coe.int

Guido Raimondi

2010 (judge), 2015 (President)

 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR; French: Cour européenne des droits de l’homme) is a supra-national or international court established by the European Convention on Human Rights. It hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights provisions concerning civil and political rights set out in the Convention and its protocols. An application can be lodged by an individual, a group of individuals or one or more of the other contracting states, and, besides judgments, the Court can also issue advisory opinions. The Convention was adopted within the context of the Council of Europe, and all of its 47 member states are contracting parties to the Convention. The Court is based in Strasbourg, France.