Nicolas: Source doc: echr — European Court of Human Rights (HUDOC) (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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Source doc: echr — European Court of Human Rights (HUDOC) (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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European Court of Human Rights decisions from the HUDOC database. Judgments and admissibility decisions. Year-by-year from 1959, with automatic splitting for high-volume years. Parallel downloads (32 workers).

'''Status:''' active

== Source ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Key !! Kind !! Origin !! Auth !! Update
|-
| <code>echr</code> || decision || HUDOC search API — <code>hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/query/results</code> || none || incremental (year-by-year)
|}

'''ID format:''' <code>eu.echr_{itemid}:{language}</code> (e.g. <code>eu.echr_001-12345:fr</code>)

'''Coverage:''' 1959–present

== Tags ==

=== Classification ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Tag !! Values !! Notes
|-
| <code>type</code> || <code>judgment</code> || always (both judgments and decisions)
|-
| <code>nature</code> || <code>ARRÊT</code> (JUDGMENTS collection) or <code>DÉCISION</code> (DECISIONS collection) ||
|-
| <code>document_form</code> || <code>canonical_text</code>, <code>dissenting_opinion</code>, <code>concurring_opinion</code>, <code>separate_opinion</code> || detected via docname regex
|-
| <code>court</code> || <code>echr</code> || always
|-
| <code>court_level</code> || <code>supranational</code> || always
|}

=== Grades ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! <code>official_grade</code> !! → <code>importance_level</code> !! Meaning
|-
| <code>1</code> || <code>highest_importance</code> || Key case (ECHR Reports)
|-
| <code>2</code> || <code>high_importance</code> || High importance
|-
| <code>3</code> || <code>medium_importance</code> || Medium importance
|-
| <code>4</code> || <code>low_importance</code> || Low importance
|}

=== Formation ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! <code>formation_solemnity</code> !! Criteria
|-
| <code>grand_bench</code> || "Grande chambre" in chamber label
|-
| <code>standard_bench</code> || section/chamber (not committee, not grand)
|-
| <code>reduced_bench</code> || "Comité" or "(comité)" in label
|}

Chamber label derived from <code>originatingbody</code> (section ID) and <code>doctypebranch</code>. 5 sections (Première–Cinquième) with optional committee qualifier.

=== Domain-specific ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Tag !! Notes
|-
| <code>respondent_state</code> || defendant country (e.g. "FRA")
|-
| <code>has_separate_opinion</code> || <code>"true"</code> or <code>"false"</code>
|-
| <code>echr_branch</code> || <code>admissibility</code>, <code>admissibility_committee</code>, <code>grand_chamber_decision</code> (when applicable)
|-
| <code>chamber</code> || full chamber label in French
|-
| <code>solution</code> || conclusion field from HUDOC
|-
| <code>summary</code> || headnote extracted from bordered CSS box in HTML
|-
| <code>ecli</code> || ECLI string
|-
| <code>case_number</code> || application numbers (split by ";")
|-
| <code>translation_pending</code> || target language code when no sibling found
|}

== Edges ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! <code>kind</code> !! Direction !! Trigger
|-
| <code>language_variant</code> || EN ↔ FR || post-ingest LLM translation enrichment
|}

== Related sources ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Source !! Relationship
|-
| [[Sources/EU/CJEU|cjeu]] || Separate court system (Council of Europe vs EU). Different grade system, different formation model.
|}

== Limitations ==

* Only <code>language="fr"</code> ingested — multi-language support planned
* <code>needs_review: "echr_chamber_unmapped"</code> when neither branch nor body resolved to known mapping
* No citation edges between ECHR decisions
* Formation solemnity not available for single-judge decisions (no <code>single_judge</code> value set)

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