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The project “Foster transparency of judicial decisions and enhancing the national implementation of the ECHR” is implemented by the Council of Europe (CoE) and will cover Cyprus, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia, engaging in cooperation with the ministries of justice and supreme courts of these countries. The main aim is to strengthen human rights protection and the rule of law by increasing of consistency of national judicial decisions with the respective European standards. With this intervention, the CoE aims to improve transparency and consistency of national judicial decisions and exchange of the most up to date information on human rights issues. The project is designed following the entry into force of Protocol no. 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to foster cooperation on enhancing the national implementation of the ECHR through digitalisation processes ongoing in national judiciaries.
Transparency of the judicial process and consistency of judicial decisions can be improved through their publication. This can be done with the application of special technical and methodological solutions which could assist in the automatization of the preparation of the document for its publication. At the same time, such technical solutions can be used for the recognition of some keywords in the document and proposed categorisation. This will, inter alia, allow for the identification of human rights issues (including new challenges), collection and analysis of additional internal statistics on various human rights cases, revealing discrepancies and inconsistencies in judicial decision-makins. Additionally, categorisation may be used for adjustment of search in national case law databases. Effective implementation of proposed methodologies and novel IT tools shall boost ECHR-compliant adjudication in national courts in line with the principle of subsidiarity.