The Proposed Integration of the African Court of Justice and the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights: Legal Difficulties and Merits

Autor:	Kithure Kindiki
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	European Union law Government International human rights law Jurisdiction Human rights Linguistic rights Law media_common.quotation_subject Political science Commission Economic Justice media_common
Zdroj:	African Journal of International and Comparative Law. 15:138-146
ISSN:	1755-1609 0954-8890
DOI:	10.3366/ajicl.2007.15.1.138
Popis:	Through a decision of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government (“Assembly”) meeting in Addis Ababa between 6 and 8 July 2004, the African Union (the “AU” or “Union”) decided that the hitherto separate courts with continental jurisdiction – the African Court of Justice and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights – should be integrated into one court. The decision was based on the need to rationalise the two courts and to make them cost effective. The Assembly further directed the Chairperson of the AU Commission (or Secretariat) to work out the modalities of implementing the decision. Although the Assembly later decided that the operationalisation of the human rights court should go ahead notwithstanding – and in this connection went ahead to appoint judges for the Court – the issue of the integration is still being worked out. The aim of this contribution is two-fold, namely, to highlight the diffi culties involved in the integration of the two courts proposing the possible solutions; and to highlight the merits of such integration.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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