Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2004
The present article traces the developments with respect to questions of admissibility of claims brought before the European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights by private individuals. It would appear that over the years, the Commission and Court have dealt with an increasing number of cases, and have extended the scope of the infringement they permitted themselves to make on the domestic jurisdiction of states members to the European Convention of Human Rights.