ABSTRACT
However, it is important to think imaginatively and boldly about practical ways o f alleviating the profound crisis which threatens the Court's achievements during its next half century, ways which go beyond useful but insufficient procedural changes, or increasing funding without tackling fundamental institutional problems. These are hard times across Europe as we face a deep economic crisis, but hard times might help to concentrate the minds o f our European political and judicial leaders to tackle the worsening crisis o f the Convention system. As O 'Boyle has noted,2 there is no or little public or media discussion about the Court's problems, and the arduous process o f securing ratification o f Protocol N o 14, for example, took place ‘under the radar’ and was ‘confined to the corridors in Strasbourg’ .
