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The judges

First session 28 February 1959

Judges of the Court – 1975

Judges taking the oath in 1998

Judges taking the oath in 1959

The Court is composed of one judge in respect of each of the States to have ratified the Convention (currently 47).The judges are elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from a list of three candidates nominated by each State. They are elected for a non-renewable term of nine years. Although they are elected in respect of a State, they hear cases as individuals and do not represent that State. They are fully independent and cannot engage in any activity that would be incompatible with their duty of independence and impartiality. The composition of the bench always includes the national judge, whether it is a Chamber of seven judges or a Grand Chamber of seventeen.

Turkey: K. F.

Arik

Netherlands: B

aron F. M. V

an Asbeck

Norway: T.

Wold

Ireland: R

. McG

onigal

Italy: G

. Balla

dore Pallieri

Greece: G

. Marid

akis

Luxembourg: E

. Rodenbourg

Denmark: A. N

. C. R

oss

Belgium: H. R

olin

Iceland: E

. Arnalds

France: R

. Cassi

n

Sweden: A. E

. Holm

bäck

Germany: H

. Mosle

r

United Kingdom: Lord M

cNair

Austria: A

. Verdross

Cyprus: M. Z

ekia

Switzerla

nd: A. Fa

vre

Malta: J.

Cremona

Portugal: J.

D. Pinheiro Fa

rinha

Spain: E. G

arcía De Enterrí

a

Liech

tenstein: R

. J. M

acdonald

Finland: R

. Pekkanen

San M

arino: F.

Bigi

Hungary: A

. B. B

aka

Poland: J.

Makarcz

yk

Bulgaria

: D. G

otchev

Slovenia: P.

Jambrek

Czech

Republic: K

. Jungwiert

Slovakia: B

. Repik

Lith

uania: P. Kuris

Esto

nia: U. Lõhmus

Latvia: E

. Levits

A

ndorra: J.

Casadevall

M

oldova: T. Pantîru

Romania: M

. Voicu

Ukraine: V. B

utkevych

The first judges

1959

1964

1962

1966

1978

1981

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

Judges of the Court – 2010

Women judges of the Court – 201019

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Russi

an Federat

ion: V. To

umanov

Albania: K

. Traja

C

roatia: N

. Vajić

”t

he former Yu

goslav R

epublic of

M

acedonia”:

M. Ts

atsa-N

ikolovska

G

eorgia: M. U

grekhelidze

Arm

enia: A. G

yulumyan

Aze

rbaija

n: K. H

ajiyev

Bosn

ia and Herzegovina: L. M

ijović

Serb

ia: D. P

opović

1998

1999

2003

2004

2005

2006

2008

Monaco

: I. Berro

-Lefèvre

Montenegro: N

. Vučin

ić

Le Monde, 21 January 1959