President Jean-Paul Costa voiced his concern over Russia’s failure to ratify Protocol 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which would simplify procedures for dealing with meritless or repetitive cases. The protocol cannot be implemented until all signatories to the Convention ratify it, and Russia remains the lone holdout. Costa argued that this protocol is necessary to increase productivity and reduce the Court’s backlog of some 90,000 pending cases.
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