A few suggestions on making an application:
http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Notes ... _1_ENG.pdf
[I estimate about 4 days to put the application together. I would be interested in knowing how long everyone else takes. Much of the required information is reused from Home Office and court applications, anyway.]
All submissions must:
be wholly legible (readable);
if typed, be set out in a font size of at least 12 pt in the body of the text and 10 pt in the footnotes;
in the case of annexes, be set out in A4 page format with a margin of not less than 3.5 cm;
have pages numbered consecutively;
be divided into numbered paragraphs
A. The applicant (Individual) [est 5 minutes]
1. Surname
2. First name(s)
3. Date of birth
4. Nationality
5. Address
6. Telephone
7. Email
8. Sex
B. The applicant (Organisation) [est 5 minutes, if necessary]
9. Name
10. Identification number
11. Date of registration or incorporation
12. Activity
13. Registered address
14. Telephone
15. Email
C. Representative(s) of the applicant [est 5 minutes, if necessary]
Non-lawyer/Organisation official
16. Capacity / relationship / function
17. Surname
18. First name(s)
19. Nationality
20. Address
21. Telephone
22. Fax
23. Email
Lawyer
24. Surname
25. First name(s)
26. Nationality
27. Address
28. Telephone
29. Fax
30. Email
Authority
31. Signature of applicant
32. Date
D. State(s) against which the application is directed [est 1 minute]
33. Tick the name(s) of the State(s) against which the application is directed
---GBR - United Kingdom
E. Statement of the facts [est 1-5 days]
34-36. Be clear and concise. Give exact dates. Be chronological. Set out events in the order in which they occurred. If your complaints relate to a number of different matters (for example different sets of court proceedings), please deal with each factual matter separately.
F. Statement of alleged violation(s) of the Convention and/or Protocols and relevant arguments [est 1-5 days]
37. For each complaint raised, you must specify the Article of the Convention or Protocol invoked and give brief explanations as to how it has been infringed. Explain as precisely as you can what your complaint under the Convention is. Indicate which
Convention provision you rely on and explain why the facts that you have set out entail a violation of that provision. Explanations of this kind must be given for each individual complaint.
G. Information concerning exhaustion of domestic remedies and the six-month time-limit (Article 35 § 1 of the Convention) [1-3 days]
38. Here you must show that you have given the State a chance to put matters right before having recourse to the international jurisdiction of the Court. This means you must explain that you have used the available effective remedies in the country concerned.
39-40. Here you should state if there was an available remedy which you did not use. If so, you should give the reasons why you did not make use of it.
H. Information concerning other international proceedings (if any) [Probably not applicable?]
41-42. You must indicate whether you have submitted the complaints in your application to any other procedure of international investigation or settlement, for example a United Nations body such as the ILO or the UN Human Rights Committee, or an international arbitration panel. If you have, you should give details, including the name of the body to which you submitted your complaints, the dates and details of any proceedings which took place and details of any decisions that were taken. You should also submit copies of relevant decisions and other documents.
43-44. Previous or pending applications before the Court: You should also specify whether you as an applicant have, or have had, any other applications before the Court and, if so, give the application number(s). This is vital to assist the Court in filing, retrieving and processing the different applications under your name.
I. List of accompanying documents [est 1/2 to 1 day]
45. You must enclose a numbered and chronological list of all judgments and decisions referred to in sections E., F., G. and H. of the application form, as well as any other documents you wish the Court to take into consideration as evidence supporting your claims of a violation of the Convention (transcripts, witness statements, medical reports etc.).
And finally.....
Declaration and signature [est 1 minute]
47-48. The applicant, or the authorised representative, must sign the declaration. No one else can do so.
49. Confirmation of correspondent
The Registry will only correspond with one applicant or one representative, so if there are a number of applicants and no representative has been appointed, one applicant should be identified as the person with whom the Registry should correspond.
The application form may be downloaded from the Court’s website
http://www.echr.coe.int/applicants.
Send the application form to:
The Registrar
European Court of Human Rights
Council of Europe
67075 STRASBOURG CEDEX
FRANCE