Karel Jungwiert

Karel Jungwiert
Karel Jungwiert
Judge of the ; European Court of Human Rights ; in respect of the Czech Republic
	Incumbent
	Assumed office; 1993
Preceded by	Office created
Succeeded by	Aleš Pejchal
Personal details
Born	1 November 1944 (age 74); Vlkovce, Czechoslovakia
Residence	Strasbourg
Alma mater	Charles University in Prague
Profession	Lawyer

Last updated April 13, 2019

Karel Jungwiert (born 1 November 1944) is a Czech lawyer, and has been the Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Czech Republic since the country's accession to the Council of Europe in 1993.^[1] His term at the Court ended on 31 October 2012.^[2]

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The European Court of Human Rights is a supranational or international court established by the European Convention on Human Rights. The court hears applications alleging that a contracting state has breached one or more of the human rights provisions concerning civil and political rights set out in the Convention and its protocols.

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Early life

Jungwiert was born in Vlkovce (a village near Benešov). He obtained a Doctorate in Law from the Charles University in Prague, the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic in 1969, and was admitted as a barrister in 1974.^[1]

Vlkovce is a village and municipality in Kežmarok District in the Prešov Region of north Slovakia.

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Career

Jungwiert practised at the Bar until 1989, and in 1990 was appointed Head of the Secretariat of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia. In 1993, the State of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, and Jungwiert became a judge of the Supreme Court of the newly formed Czech Republic. Later that year, he was elected the judge in respect of the Czech Republic at the European Court of Human Rights.^[1] His term at the Court ended on 31 October 2012.^[2]

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia, was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on 1 January 1993, was an event that saw the self-determined split of the federal state of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, entities that had arisen before as the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic in 1969 within the framework of a federal republic.

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References

1 2 3 "Judges of the Court". European Court of Human Rights. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
1 2 "Procedure for electing judges to the European Court of Human Rights" (PDF). Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 9 February 2011. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2011.

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[ecthr-1] 1 2 3 "Judges of the Court". European Court of Human Rights. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2011.

[term-2] 1 2 "Procedure for electing judges to the European Court of Human Rights" (PDF). Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 9 February 2011. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2011.