Autore
Di Filippo, Marcello

Titolo
Walking the (Barbed) Wire of the Prohibition of Collective Expulsion: An Assessment of the Strasbourg Case Law
Periodico
Diritti umani e diritto internazionale
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 14 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 479 - Pagina finale: 509

Following the Hirsi judgment dating back to 2012, the prohibition of collective expulsion gained aprominent role in the European system of protection of human rights. Its implications on the restrictivemigration policies implemented by European States at the borders or elsewhere are farreaching.With the N.D. & N.T. judgment of February 2020 the Strasbourg Court had the occasionto assess the controversial Spanish policy of hot returns at its terrestrial border with Morocco. Contraryto the previous findings of the Chamber, the Grand Chamber held that no violation of Art. 4Protocol No. 4 of the Convention occurred. This article critically assesses the reasoning followed bythe Court in introducing a sort of ‘bad behaviour exception’ to that provision: several flaws andquestionable passages, both in abstract and in the application to the circumstances of the case, arehighlighted. It then argues that it is possible and desirable to significantly reduce the impact of thisunfortunate precedent on future cases dealing with collective rejections.



SICI: 1971-7105(2020)14:2<479:WT(WOT>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.12829/97965
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