CYIL vol. 8 (2017)

ŠTEFAN VIEDENSKÝ

CYIL 8 ȍ2017Ȏ

of European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the European Court of Human Rights (references and quotations). She analyses in detail the Human Right Documents database for the period from 3 October 1991, when approximately 90,000 jurisprudential judgements included around 900 judgements and decisions where the European Court of Human Rights refers to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. Only 6 judgments referring to judgments of the CPT (among those States against which complaints were lodged in cases of the CPT) concern the Czech Republic. All these judgments were delivered by the European Council of Human Rights. The result of her study is that although the European Court of Human Rights is an independent judiciary institution, it certainly takes into account the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture reports in its decision-making process and its documents are considered as an important basis for its decision-making. Viktor Kundrák and Petr Konůpka in their article „Criminalization of ill-treatment under European Convention on Human Rights: the Obligation of an Adequate Legal Framework“ analyse in detail two recent judgements of the European Court on Human Rights against the Czech Republic, where there was found a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in its substantive and procedural aspects. The authors discuss that the domestic treatment of criminal sanctions for violations of human rights is not completely without gaps. The presented collective study reflects how seriously Czech experts consider the importance of the issue examined. It can be definitely confirmed that this substantive topic has been (and still is) discussed and examined at the expert level in the Czech Republic. And the questions concerning protection of human rights are closely related to the preventive mechanisms under the OPCAT. The publication elaborates both theoretical and practical aspects of the issue. It is a quite substantial and representative elaboration of a relatively specific international and national legal subject from different perspectives – and this is the most important added value of this book. Štefan Viedenský *

* JUDr. Štefan Viedensk ý is a Senior lecturer of International law at the College of International and Public Relations, Prague, and at the Faculty of Law of the Pan European University in Bratislava (Prague branch). Previously he served as a diplomat and as a lawyer in various state and private institutions.

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